Jamaica’s Updated NDC Incorporates Land-use Change and Forestry Sector | News | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD

Abstract / Summary

Tracking the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda, Jamaica’s updated 2020 NDC doubles ambition and moves towards an economy-wide target by adding the land-use change and forestry sector and deepening emission reductions in the energy sectors. Actions highlighted in Jamaica’s NDC include projects on community-based climate resilience in the fisheries sector and integrated watershed management. According to the NDC, the availability and transfer of technologies that are environmentally sound and which support low-carbon and climate-resilient development is paramount.