Zimbabwe Revised Nationally Determined Contribution 2021.

The Zimbabwe Revised Nationally Determined Contribution 2021 presents Zimbabwe’s Revised NDC including an updated per capita emission reduction target that applies to all sectors of the economy, relative to a 2030 baseline. The updated emissions reduction target raises ambition beyond what was pledged in Zimbabwe’s INDC.
Zimbabwe is focusing on four high-level priority adaptation measures, namely to: 1) Develop, implement and scale-up climate smart agriculture solutions and strengthen agricultural value chains and markets; 2) Enhance early warning and climate-related disaster risk reduction systems (including information management systems); 3) Ensure climate resilient infrastructure designs and development; and 4) Develop and promote resilient and sustainable water resources management. Under Measure 1 Zimbabwe will promote the use and roll-out of gender sensitive climate-smart agriculture technologies and practices such as land and water resources conservation, sustainable mechanization, agro-ecology, water-efficient irrigation, renewable energy and energy efficiency, climate adapted crop types/varieties and livestock types/breeds, crop/livestock diversification, agro-forestry, integrated pest and disease management, post-harvest technologies, improved livestock management, fodder production and livestock feeding strategies, silvi-pastoral systems. Zimbabwe will also implement actions that focus on: (i) increasing resource-use efficiency along the agricultural value chain (ii) supporting value addition to agricultural products (iii) improving market access for women and youth farmers in remote areas, (iv) minimizing waste, and (v) reducing inequalities along agricultural value chains. Under Measure 2 Zimbabwe will take steps to enhance early warning systems, including through better information management systems to provide the systems and knowledge to manage disaster risks at national and community-level, and support the coordination of responses to climate hazards and to climate impacts across sectors and geographies. Under Measure 4 Zimbabwe will implement actions which support the use of best available hydro-climatic information to improve water resource management (water resource assessment), explore options to increase water supply from surface and underground (water demand management and water use), considering gender differences in water supply and access, and support the management of extreme events (integrated flood management, drought management.
Mitigation measures are divided into: 1) Energy sector (Energy efficiency improvements in agriculture, biofuel, solar power, hydropower); 2) Industrial Processes and Product Use (IPPU) sector; 3) Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector (increase area of forest land, inclusive of agricultural production landscapes; 4) Waste sector (waste to energy, organic waste usage);