The Paris Agreement requires all Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to put forward their best efforts through ‘nationally determined contributions’ (NDCs). The NDCs reflect each country’s commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In September 2015, Ghana committed to a set of 31 adaptation and mitigation actions (consisting of 20 mitigation and 11 adaptation programmes of action) and ratified the Paris Agreement in 2016. This Synthesis Report provides a snapshot of the sector contributions and gender-differentiated impacts of the seven priority sectors highlighted in Ghana’s NDCs (GH-NDCs): agriculture, energy, health, transport, waste, water, and disaster risk reduction and climate services.

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