As India prepares to update its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in 2025, it faces the dual challenge of advancing climate ambition while meeting pressing developmental needs such as meeting energy demand, resilient infrastructure, inclusive economic growth and job creation. This requires a coherent strategy that integrates both mitigation and adaptation, going beyond alignment with long-term development goals to also tackle the systemic, structural and institutional realities that shape implementation.

While the NDCs focus on specific mitigation and adaptation actions over the near to medium term, the Long-Term Low Emission Development Strategy (LT-LEDS) sets out a broader vision to guide the country toward net-zero by 2070. Aligning these two frameworks (NDCs and the LT-LEDS) is crucial to ensure that short-term climate actions lay the groundwork for lasting, transformative and long-term change.

In this context, WRI India is organizing an invite-only workshop to analyze the structures, institutions and sectoral interdependencies influencing India’s climate commitments. Using a systems thinking approach, the workshop will identify systemic barriers, feedback loops and leverage points critical to align the 2025 NDC update with the Long-Term Low Emission Development Strategy (LT-LEDS). By visualizing these complex interactions, the workshop outputs will support scenario analysis and inform sectoral target setting as a way forward essential for determining and implementing India’s NDC 2025 commitments.  

Workshop Objectives:  

  • Identify long-term decarbonisation levers and enabling systems (policy, markets, governance and equity and technology) necessary to drive systemic low-carbon transitions in both policy and practice over the next decade.
  • Identify potential unconditional and conditional 2035 NDC targets and assess the finance, technology and capacity needs for achieving these targets.

For more information, please write to Arpan Golechha (arpan.golechha@wri.org) or Varsha Nair (varsha.nair@wri.org)