Revised and updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC).

This updated Nationally Determined Contribution is a nationwide multi-sectoral document aiming at broadening the scope of sectors under mitigation by (i) adding transport, liquid waste, and coal (production, transportation, and consumption) and (ii) elaborating the adaptation component by developing indicators that will enable tracking the achieved progress. The main goal of the country is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25%. The interventions will mainly concern the following sectors (i) Energy; (ii) Agriculture Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU); (iii) Waste. The Government intends to carry out long-term adaptation programming together with mainstreaming climate change adaptation into the national planning and budgeting processes.
To help eliminate hunger and malnutrition, the document aims to diversify and promote Climate Smart Agricultural (CSA) practices for crop, livestock and fisheries production including conservation of germplasm for land races and their wild relatives. In general, Zambia's role in global food security in the context of climate change is to adapt to a changing climate, manage and use these resources sustainably, to secure food supplies while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
More sustainable and productive agriculture will be achieved through (i) Climate Smart Agriculture; (ii) sustainable forest management helping on the impact on emissions; (iii) promotion of water technologies for savings, recycling, irrigation, and sustainable management for agriculture.
To enhance more inclusive and effective agricultural and food systems, the document mentions the Climate Change Gender Action Plan developed in 2018 to ensure that the climate change processes are gender-transformative and guarantee that women and men can have access to, participate in, and benefit equally from climate change initiatives, many of which are precisely linked to agriculture and food security.
The resilience of livelihoods will be increased by (i) protecting and conserving water catchment areas; (ii) enhancing investment in water capture, storage, and transfer (linked to agriculture, energy, ecological, industrial, and domestic use purposes) in selected watersheds; (iii) enhancing decentralized climate information services for early warning and long-term projections on the effects of climate change; (iv) institutionalizing integrated land use planning compatible with sustainable management of natural resources and infrastructure development.
As for Governance, the National Designated Authority (NDA) for the Green Climate Fund has already been designated and is expected to play a key role of “clearinghouse or entity” for climate change projects to be funded from the Green Climate Fund (GFC). The effectiveness of the NDC implementation will be ensured through the ongoing development and strengthening of Implementation Framework and Monitoring Reporting and Verification (MRV) systems to track the progress of implementation of both the mitigation and adaptation programs.