The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) recently released its 2025 nationally determined contributions (NDCs) synthesis report. It reported improved quality, credibility and economic coverage by the participating nations.

Released ahead of COP30 in Brazil next month, the report provides new indications of real and increasing progress on action to address climate change through national efforts.

In their NDCs, parties are setting out new national climate targets and plans to achieve them that differ in pace and scale from those that have come before, the report said. It said that parties are bending their combined emission curve further downward, but still not quickly enough.

The whole-of-economy, whole-of-society approaches evident in NDCs point to strong climate action as an increasingly core pillar of ensuring economic stability and growth, jobs, health, and energy security and affordability, among many other policy imperatives, in countries, it said.