Samoa’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution.

This Samoa’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) is a nation-wide cross-sectoral policy document with the implementation period from 2015 to 2025. The INDC outlines the target of Samoa: Samoa is committed to reducing its GHG emissions from the Electricity sub sector through the adoption of a 100% renewable energy target for electricity generation through to the year 2025. Samoa’s commitment is conditional on reaching the 100% renewable electricity generation target in 2017 and receiving international assistance to maintain this contribution through to 2025. According to the INDC, Samoa’s economy‐wide emissions reduction conditional on external international assistance.
The INDC promotes to increase the resilience of livelihoods to the impacts of climate change. In the INDC, Samoa recognizes that the adverse effects of climate change will have significant impact on the country particularly in sectors such as agriculture, coastal infrastructure, health, forestry, meteorology, tourism, and water. While the focus of Samoa’s INDC is on Mitigation, Samoa highlights the need to build on work that has been undertaken to ensure actions that have been identified during the implementation of previous adaptation objects are addressed at a future stage. It also indicates that building climate resilience, disaster risk reduction as well as adaptation projects in vulnerable sectors require significant external assistance and this has been highlighted through the prioritisation of climate change in national planning.