Healthy NDCs 3.0: Embedding Health in National Climate Plans for 2035

It is vital that NDCs 3.0 not only address the health threats of climate change, but also minimise future health-harming events and prioritise triple win solutions to slow climate change, promote health, and ensure productive economies. Governments have an opportunity to publicly commit to actions which will deliver for human, planetary and economic wellbeing. Failure to do so is a missed opportunity and puts lives on the line.

This report provides an assessment of recently submitted NDCs to reveal examples of good practice and issues where greater ambition is needed on a global scale, to produce recommendations for policymakers in a year when ambitious climate plans are needed more urgently than ever. It builds on series of NDC Scorecards produced by the GCHA between 2021 and 2023 to evaluate inclusion of health and health-related considerations in NDCs.