At the heart of the Paris Climate Change Agreement is the commitment by national governments to review their progress and ratchet up the ambition of national climate action plans, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).

The Global Climate Action Summit, happening midway between Paris 2015 and 2020, is timed to provide the confidence to governments to ‘step up’ and trigger this next level of ambition sooner rather than later.

Key themes or focus areas of the Summit:

• Healthy Energy Systems: A global shift toward clean and equitable energy and mobility systems advances climate progress and enable healthy people and places.
• Inclusive Economic Growth: Climate leadership, and the clean technology and energy transition generate good jobs, broad-based economic opportunity, and inclusive, resilient growth.
• Sustainable Communities: Sustainable buildings, cities, communities, and infrastructure are clean, healthy and livable and improve quality of life for all.
• Land and Ocean Stewardship: Forests, food, lands and other ecosystems play a critical role in mitigating climate change and making our world more resilient, while also ensuring sufficient food supplies for a growing population.
• Transformative Climate Investments: Investments are mobilized on the scale needed to achieve the Paris Agreement spur innovation and accelerate a clean and resilient economy.

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