Over 350 practitioners and policymakers from more than 60 countries came together in Berlin at the Global NDC Conference 2025, a forum for exchanging on policy innovations, highlighting real-world case studies, and building multi-stakeholder collaboration.
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This year’s Global NDC Conference set out the clear goal to create a space that reflects the diversity of voices, experience and expertise needed to shape just and ambitious climate policies.
There is no pathway to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement without the leadership and stewardship of Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
Now in its fourth edition, the Global NDC Conference has become the leading global conference for dialogue and partnership-building among policymakers, climate experts, practitioners, researchers and other key stakeholders involved in the development and implementation of NDCs.
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.
Ahead of the Bonn Climate Change Conference 2025, practitioners and policymakers from more than 50 countries have come together at the Global NDC Conference to accelerate NDC implementation, turn commitment into action, and shift into sprint mode for the next round of NDCs.
Climate conferences are crucial in shaping global climate policy, fostering collaboration, and driving ambition. As the urgency to address climate change intensifies, it’s imperative that these gatherings exemplify the very principles they advocate.
The 2023 edition Global NDC Conference (31 May-2 June, 2023 in Berlin) demonstrated the power of multi-stakeholder collaboration by engaging nearly 350 climate practitioners and policymakers, from over 50 countries, to co-create solutions around the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) processes.
The organisers of the Global NDC Conference 2023 were dedicated to providing an inclusive conference space in which everyone can participate regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, physical ability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion, or any other social category.
Under the topic of mobilising finance for NDC implementation, the second day of the Global NDC Conference 2023 started with the keynote speech of Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action of Germany.