Clean Air NDC Scorecard 2023

The Clean Air NDC Scorecard assesses the integration of air quality considerations into Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). NDCs are country commitments to deliver the goal of the Paris Agreement, limiting global temperature rise to well below 2C, and preferably to 1.5C. Air pollution and climate change share fossil fuel combustion as a common driver. Meanwhile, climate change worsens existing air pollution. These interlinkages, and the impacts of poor air quality on human health, demonstrate the need to embed air quality actions in NDCs.