Climate 2020 - UNDP

'The defining threat of our time'

The period from now until 2020 is critical to the success of the Paris Agreement on climate change. UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls it “the defining threat of our time”, and we should see no end to the urgency and action needed to address it. While carbon emissions continue to rise globally, and each year seemingly sets a new record for global temperatures, a significant gap remains in achieving success on this critical, existential issue.

For UNDP, UN partners and the wider international community, the mission is clear: to push for countries, communities and the private sector to scale up ambition. By 2020, we want to see stronger action on climate targets – the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) – of the Paris Agreement.

Key to this are a series of events addressing the roadblocks and challenges to bolder climate action, while offering clarity and incentives to scale up ambition. This is the road to 2020, and it requires support from all people, in all countries. We must be All in for climate action.