Somalia submits its climate change blueprint to UN

GOOBJOOG NEWS|NEW YORK: Somalia’s Deputy Prime Minister Khadar Gulaid has announced that Somalia has submitted its Nationally Determined Contributions in line with the Paris Agreement on Climate change.

“I am delighted to announce that Somalia has submitted the Nationally Determined Contributions in line with the global and the Paris Agreement obligations on Climate change”, Gulaid said in a tweet.

The Paris Agreement sets out a global framework for fighting climate change and seeks to limit global warming to well below 2°C. The Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) embody efforts by each country to reduce national emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Article 4 of the Paris Agreement requires each Party to prepare, communicate and maintain successive nationally determined contributions (NDCs) that it intends to achieve. Parties shall pursue domestic mitigation measures, with the aim of achieving the objectives of such contributions.

It also aims to strengthen countries’ ability to deal with the impacts of climate change and support them in their efforts.

Following the ratification of the Paris Agreement in 2015, parties were required to submit their NDCs by 2020 and every five years thereafter regardless of their respective implementation time frames.

Somalia ratified the Paris Agreement on April 22, 2016.