Start date: 01 March 2025 
End date: 30 June 2026 
Status: Ongoing 
Project Office: Samoa MCO

Brief Description of the Project

The Climate Promise 2025 is a UN System-wide effort with an aim to help countries align their national climate pledges (NDCs) with the 1.5°C goal, strengthen their quality and investability, and accelerate their implementation to drive sustainable development.

With climate impacts becoming more widespread and devastating, the window of opportunity to address the climate crisis is quickly closing. As countries embark on the next cycle of their NDCs ahead of COP30, this moment stands as one of the best chances we have as an international community to ensure warming stays under 1.5°C and to increase resilience to climate impacts around the world.

Climate Promise 2025 delivers support to countries across three key pillars, including raising ambition on NDC targets and aligning to SDGs, helping accelerate implementation by strengthening elements of NDCs to make them more investible, and enabling whole-of-society approaches to ensure inclusivity across the entire process.

As sovereign and politically backed pledges, NDCs are one of the strongest tools available to integrate climate with national development priorities, plans, and investments. The national ownership of NDCs gives them their power to transition an economy.

Under the Climate Promise, UNDP will support Cook Islands to undertake an inclusive and transparent process to implement, track and further strengthen Cook Islands’ Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC).  A total amount of USD270,000 is approved for the UNDP Country Office to implement the activities as per the approved Climate Promise workplan. This funding will be made available from bi-lateral funding provided by donors to the global Climate Promise Portfolio.

Implementing Partner

UNDP

Donors

Global Climate Portfolio Donors

Total Contributions

USD270,000.00