The Building Blocks for Effective Climate Action note was published by the NDC Partnership in November 2025. It outlines the key conditions needed for countries and partners to move from climate commitments to real implementation, investment, and long-term climate-development cooperation. The document argues that effective climate action requires strong country ownership, ambitious NDCs, clear implementation and investment plans, whole-of-government coordination, and reliable partner support.
Key insights:
The report stresses that climate action must move away from top-down support and become more country-driven, with developing countries setting priorities and partners aligning their support.
NDCs should be treated as a whole-of-economy framework that connects climate action with sustainable development, investment, and national planning.
Countries need strong political ownership, ambitious NDCs, clear implementation plans, investment pipelines, and climate integration into national budgets and development plans.
Coordination is essential, including whole-of-government and whole-of-society engagement with ministries, local authorities, private sector, academia, youth, women, and vulnerable communities.
Partners also have responsibilities: they should align with country priorities, provide sustained technical assistance, increase predictable finance, and coordinate better at country level.
The note concludes that stronger collaboration between countries and partners is needed to turn NDCs into concrete policies, projects, investments, and measurable climate results.
