Climate Fact Sheets | July 2022

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS
Communications of Parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Profile of Communications under the Paris Agreement

Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC)1
NDCs communicate the post-2020
climate policies and measures of
Parties to contribute to achieving
the long-term goal of keeping global
temperature rise well below 2°C
above pre-industrial levels or even
further to 1.5°C.

Periodicity: every 5 years (shall)

Philippine Preparations:
for on-going initial preparations to
set up the measurement, reporting,
and verification system

Status:
 All Parties to the Paris
Agreement plus one non-Party
to the Paris Agreement have
submitted first or updated
NDCs2,
 Most ASEAN countries have
an updated version of their
first NDCs (Cambodia, Lao
PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar,
Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam)
submitted in 2020-2021
 The Philippines is the last
country in the ASEAN to
submit its first NDC

1
Article 4 of the Paris Agreement, Decision 1/CP.28 paragraphs 22-28
2
Eritrea submitted an NDC without having ratified the Paris Agreement; data from https://unfccc.int/NDCREG
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National Adaptation Plan (NAP)3

Under the Cancun
Adaptation Framework
(CAF), Parties are invited
to plan, prioritize, and
implement adaptation
actions, projects, and
programmes and outline
these in national
adaptation plans (NAPs)
per UNFCCC Decision
1/CP.16, which are to be
prepared by least
developed countries and
developing countries.

Periodicity: by 1 February
2024 (invited)

Philippine Preparations:
National Climate Change
Action Plan and National
Climate Risk Management
Framework are key inputs

Support available:

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Decision 1/CP.16, Decision 5/CP.17, Article 7 of the Paris Agreement, Decision 3/CP.26
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through the Green Climate

Fund (GCF)

Status:
 33 developing countries
and 3 least-developed
countries have
submitted their NAPs4,
or 23% of Non-Annex I
Parties to the Paris
Agreement
 Cambodia is the only
ASEAN country with a
NAP submitted in the
NAP Registry

Long-term Strategies (LTS)5

4
https://www4.unfccc.int/sites/NAPC/Pages/national-adaptation-plans.aspx
5
Article 4 paragraph 19 of the Paris Agreement, Decision 1/CP.21 par.35, Decision 1/CMA3
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LTS are long-term,

economy wide plans of
country Parties to reduce
greenhouse gas
emissions, with due
consideration of common
but differentiated
responsibilities and
respective capabilities and
different national
circumstances.

Periodicity:
by 2020 (invited), or by the
4th session of the
Conference of the Parties
serving as the meeting of
the Parties to the Paris
Agreement

Philippine Preparations:
mitigation policies and
measures have been
identified by the agencies,
for further discussions in
the light of the relationship
of the LTS with the
technical articulation,
implementation, and
scaling up of the Philippine
Nationally Determined
Contributions

Support available:
through the Green Climate
Fund (GCF)

Status:
 51 Parties to the Paris
Agreement plus the EU
have submitted LTS
 Among the Non-Annex
I Parties, 22 or 15%
submitted LTS
 Among the Annex I
Parties, 29 or 67%
submitted LTS
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Profile of Communications per Workstream

Adaptation Communications (ADCOM)6

ADCOMs strengthen
reporting on adaptation of
country Parties particularly
on priorities,
implementation and
support needs, plans and
actions. These may be
prepared in conjunction
with or as components to
NCs, BTRs, NDCs, or
National Adaptation Plans
(NAPs).

Periodicity:
as appropriate, submitted
and updated periodically,
as a component of or in
conjunction with other
communications or
documents, including
NAPs, NDCs, and NCs

Philippine Preparations:
 For incorporation in the
third NC or first BTR,

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Articles 7.10 and 7.11 of the Paris Agreement, Decision 9/CMA.1
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subject to further
discussions

Status:
 38 Parties to the Paris
Agreement have
submitted ADCOMs, or
20% of all Parties7
 25 of the ADCOMs
submitted were from
Non-Annex I parties,
and 13 were from
Annex I Parties
 There are no ADCOMs
submitted separately by
ASEAN countries

Information on gender and climate change8

Under the Five-year Lima Work The UNFCCC Secretariat currently has open calls
Programme on Gender and Its Action for four submissions:
Plan, Parties are invited and requested
to submit information on
Submission No. of Submissions from Parties
mainstreaming gender and climate
change per the Lima Work Programme gender differentiated impacts of 9 plus 1 group submission (Alliance of
climate change, the role of women Small Island States)
and relevant decisions. as agents of change and
opportunities for women Non-Annex I: 5
Periodicity: Annex I: 5
2021-2022, based on the call of the progress of implementation of the 15 plus 2 group submissions (Alliance of
UNFCCC Secretariat gender action plan Small Island States and African Group of
Negotiators)
Philippine Preparations:
 The Philippines through the CCC is
finalizing its submission under “Share Non-Annex I: 11
Annex I: 6
experiences on dimensions and
examples of the gender differentiated gender budgeting 1
impacts of climate change, the role of
Non-Annex I: 1
women as agents of change and
opportunities for women” engaging women’s groups and 1
national women and gender
 This submission is based on inputs

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https://unfccc.int/ACR
8
Decision 3/CP25, Five-year Lima Work Programme on Gender and Its Action Plan
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received from national government institutions Non-Annex I: 1

agencies per the call for submissions
issued in February 2022

National Strategies on Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) 9

ACE strategies outline how Parties  There is no mandate yet for Parties to submit their
ensure active involvement of the public national ACE strategies
and employ whole-of-society  The DENR serves as the regional co-facilitator of
approaches through education, the dialogues on ACE for the Asia and the Pacific,
training, public awareness, public together with Australia
participation, public access to  The CCC had initial discussions with the
information, and international Department of Environment and Natural Resources
cooperation. (DENR) as the Philippine ACE Focal on developing
the National Strategy on ACE
Periodicity:
 Parties are invited to develop and
implement national strategies on
Action for Climate Empowerment,
taking into consideration national
circumstances

Philippine Preparations:
 the DENR has initiated stakeholder
consultations on developing the
National ACE Strategy in 2019 and is
planning to continue consultations in
2022

9
Article 6 of the text of the UNFCCC, Article 12 of the Paris Agreement, Decision 17/CP.24, 10-year Glasgow Work Programme