This blog post was originally posted at the GLOBE Legislators website in June 2025.
Parliamentarians have been overlooked for too long and are vital to the NDC 3.0 design and implementation process. This was the key message from the one-day GLOBE Roundtable on Parliamentary Engagement in the NDCs, held in Berlin on 10 June 2025, in partnership with the German Government’s International Climate Initiative, NDC Partnership, E3G and WFD.
The importance of parliaments in the national climate commitments of Parties to the Paris Agreement was strongly underscored by Members of Parliament, experts, representatives of governments and international organisations.
The event which took place on the eve of the 2025 Global NDC Conference (11-13 June) and brought together Members of Parliament from across the world, experts, and representatives of government for a high-level conversation on the important role of Members of Parliament in the development and implementation of national climate commitments also known as Nationally Determined Contributions(NDCs).
Context: Parliamentarians at the 2025 edition
For the first time, the Global NDC Conference hosted a roundtable on NDCs and parliamentary engagement, in collaboration with GLOBE Legislators, UNFCCC Focal Point for the Informal Parliamentary Group.
Parliamentarians from several countries and climate policy experts exchanged examples on the crucial role of parliaments in raising ambition, securing finance, accelerating action, ensuring oversight of implementation, as well as securing a public mandate for ambitious climate action.
