Morocco Pledges 45.5% Cut in Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2030

The press release from the Ministry of Energy, Mines and the Environment indicates that in the document submitted to the Executive Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Morocco has expressed its new Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), specifying a new target of 45.5% by 2030, of which 18.3% is unconditional and achieved without support from international cooperation.

The updated NDC is structured around a portfolio of 61 mitigation projects, 27 of which are conditional on international support, the source notes, noting that these projects cover seven sectors, namely: energy (electricity generation), industry (including phosphates and cement production as two new sub-sectors), housing and construction, transport, waste, agriculture, land management and forestry.

The total cost of this project portfolio is estimated at $38.8 billion, of which $21.5 billion for the conditional projects.

The updated NDC also includes strategic adaptation objectives for the water, agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture, forestry, land use planning, urban management and health sectors, as well as fragile ecosystems (coastal, mountainous and oasis), the total cost of the adaptation measures being estimated at around $40 billion, the ministry points out.

Recall that King Mohammed VI had addressed the participants of the Climate Action Summit, held at the United Nations headquarters in 2019 in New York, and affirmed Morocco’s commitment to raising the ambition of its NDC, taking into account the provisions of the Paris Agreement on climate.