Since the cut-off date for the submission of new or updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs) the UN has received pledges from 110 Parties.

This compares favourably with new or updated NDCs from 75 Parties received up to the end of December 2020, but it is still far from satisfactory, since only a little over half of all the expected Parties (58 per cent) have met the cut-off deadline. The deadline set at the end of July, is especially disappointing in the run up to COP26. There are currently 191 Parties to the Paris Agreement.

The cut-off date for submissions allows the UNFCCC to carry out the essential work of reviewing, quantifying and summarising the content of the new or updated NDCs, before presenting the results to the parties and to the public at large.

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