Liberia's 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC 3.0).

The Liberia’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) 3.0 is a multisectoral document aiming to revise and enhance Liberia’s climate commitments in line with the Paris Agreement, national development priorities, and Liberia’s ARREST Agenda for Inclusive Development (AAID). The overall goal of the document is to reduce national greenhouse gas emissions, strengthen adaptation and resilience, and ensure all climate actions are grounded in equity, climate justice, and social inclusion. The final achievement is to create a more just and equitable society by designing and implementing gender-responsive and socially inclusive climate actions.
The main objectives of the NDC 3.0 are (i) update and enhance Liberia’s climate commitments under the Paris Agreement, updating the previous NDC 2.0 to reflect Liberia’s highest possible ambition; (ii) communicate Liberia’s mitigation and adaptation targets for 2030–2035, which include (a) reducing emissions by 64% by 2030 relative to BAU; (b) moving toward economy-wide emission reductions; and (c) setting a conditional long-term goal of net-zero emissions by 2050; (iii) integrate climate action with national development priorities; (iv) address climate impacts through strengthened adaptation efforts across sectors such as agriculture, forestry, coastal protection, water resources, and health; (v) ensure climate actions are gender-responsive and socially inclusive by protecting and empowering women, children, youth, and persons with disabilities through dedicated climate finance for women-led initiatives and jobs for youth; (vi) strengthen transparency, monitoring, and reporting; (vii) mobilize financial, technical, and capacity-building support from international partners.
Liberia’s NDC 3.0 outlines a comprehensive set of (1) mitigation, (2) adaptation, and (3) cross-cutting strategies designed to reduce emissions, strengthen climate resilience, and ensure inclusive climate action. (1) Mitigation efforts focus on reducing emissions by 64% by 2030 through actions in the following key sectors (i) forestry and land-use, aiming to reduce deforestation, promote conservation, expand protected areas, enhance carbon storage through reforestation and afforestation, and adopt sustainable forest management; (ii) energy, emphasizing expansion of renewable energy such as solar and hydropower, improving energy efficiency, reducing reliance on biomass for cooking, and strengthening the national grid to reduce fossil fuel dependence; (iii) agriculture, including lowering methane emissions from livestock and rice cultivation, improving fertilizer efficiency to reduce nitrous oxide, and promoting climate-smart, low-emission farming; (iv) waste, improving waste management, reducing open burning and landfill methane emissions, and exploring methane capture and waste-to-energy solutions. In addition, the National Methane Roadmap targets methane reductions across agriculture, waste, transport, and energy systems. (2) Adaptation strategies strengthen resilience across climate-vulnerable sectors such as (i) agriculture and food security, aiming to increase crop resilience and promote climate-smart farming; (ii) water resource, improving water monitoring, supply management, and flood control systems; (iii) coastal and marine, addressing erosion through protective infrastructure, restore mangroves, and reduce vulnerability in coastal cities; (iv) biodiversity and forestry, focusing on conserving ecosystems and restoring degraded landscapes; (v) health and livelihood, strengthening health systems to respond to climate-driven diseases and creating shock-responsive safety nets for vulnerable groups; (vi) urban and infrastructure resilience, to enhance drainage systems and promote climate-resilient planning. (3) Cross-cutting strategies include (i) ensuring gender-responsive and socially inclusive climate action through integrating gender considerations in all projects, establishing climate finance mechanisms for women, creating green jobs for youth, and embedding climate education in schools; (ii) climate governance will be strengthened through improved coordination led by the National Climate Change Steering Committee; (iii) monitoring, reporting, and verification systems will be upgraded to meet Enhanced Transparency Framework requirements, including the collection of gender-disaggregated data.