This guide is designed to address the urgent need for further extending the scope and ambition of building sector actions in NDCs, the opportunities for aligning with commitments made by non-party actors, and the renewed support for successively increasing ambition and implementing actions of NDCs. It provides a simple process for incorporating or updating ambitious and effective building sector actions in Nationally Determined Contributions.
It focusses particularly on key actions that are necessary to address and overcome common challenges faced by countries in designing, financing and implementing ambitious and effective actions, and is intended to support the progressive updating of NDCs. This guide is structured around three stages for incorporating such ambitious and effective buildings sector GHG mitigation actions into NDCs; Mapping, Prioritizing and Implementing & Monitoring. Each section focuses on how to achieve ambitious and effective outcomes in the buildings sector.