GLOBE hosts NDCs & Parliaments Roundtable in Berlin
Roundtable on NDCs and Parliamentary Engagement
Tuesday 10th June 2025 | 9:30 – 17:00
Scandic Hotel, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany
On the eve of the Global NDC Conference, GLOBE Legislators is hosting a Roundtable on NDCs and Parliamentary Engagement to underscore the importance of parliaments and parliamentarians in the NDC 3.0 process. The hybrid Roundtable will bring together leading parliamentarians and experts to showcase the crucial role of parliaments in: raising ambition, securing finance, accelerating action, ensuring oversight of implementation, and importantly, securing a public mandate for ambitious climate action.
This year Parties to the Paris Agreement are due to submit their 3rd Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) detailing commitments for climate action ahead of COP30 in Brazil in November 2025.The First Global Stocktake (GST1) mandated Parties to the Paris Agreement to develop updated and more ambitious NDCs (NDC 3. 0) and 10-year plans through to 2035. Originally intended for submission by February 2025, the reality is that most Parties are lagging behind and submission of the NDCs 3.0 has been set back to September 2025.
GLOBE Legislators serves as the UNFCCC Focal Point for the Parliamentary Group and brings together the world’s leading parliamentary organisations and networks. The First Global Stocktake (GST1) called on countries to submit comprehensive and economy-wide NDCs 3.0 of higher ambition than those reflected in the 2nd NDCs submitted in 2020. GLOBE has been working to ensure that these NDC 3.0 plans engage and are shaped through informed dialogue with parliaments. The NDCs 3.0 must also be investible, with a clear finance plan; resilient, with an insurance plan; and inclusive, with a public engagement plan, to secure the public mandate needed for implementation. All aspects well within the domain of parliamentary scrutiny.
We believe that parliamentary engagement and leadership are key to the development of credible and implementable NDC 3.0 plans. Parliamentary powers of scrutiny, oversight, lawmaking and budgetary approval can make NDCs that are more fit for purpose and capable of driving implementation. Ambitious NDCs must be anchored in a comprehensive framework of national legislation that can attract investment and build confidence in long-term delivery.
GLOBE is therefore hosting a 1-day hybrid Roundtable, ahead of the Global NDC Conference in Berlin (11-13 June 2025), to drive home these points and provide a platform for parliamentary engagement on the NDCs to share best practice, learn from experts and promote collaboration.
The Roundtable is being held in association with the NDC Partnership, GIZ, IKI, E3G and the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD). It will feature the launch of a GLOBE Survey on Parliamentary Engagement in NDCs, sharing of best practices, and presentations by leading legislators, independent climate change councils and experts on framework climate change laws.
For more information, including how to join via Zoom link, kindly contact: secretariat@globelegislators.org
