NDC4 Webinars
Accelerating climate action with cooling sector-related NDCs
The NDC4 webinar series shines light on the importance and potential of the cooling sector for more ambitious and enhanced NDCs and disseminates holistic mitigation approaches.

Cooling sector specific mitigation targets and measures can significantly contribute to achieving a country’s overall climate targets and therefore, need to be considered when defining and updating Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The global project Cool Contributions fighting Climate Change ll (C4 II (opens in a new window)) launches a webinar series to illustrate tools, methods and best practice examples for designing and implementing more ambitious NDCs in the cooling sector. The first webinar provided guidance on how to apply for the NDC4 Call for Proposals (opens in a new window). The second webinar will shine light on a new benchmarking tool which supports decision makers to assess the ambition level of NDC targets in the cooling sector.
Upcoming webinars
New webinars for 2023 will be announced here soon
Previous events:
Webinar #2: Benchmarking the level of ambition of cooling sector-related measures included in NDCs (13 December 2022, 2-3 pm CET)
The second webinar introduced the benchmarking tool developed together with the guideline Raising ambition in NDCs through holistic mitigation approaches in the cooling sector – Guidance for policymakers (opens in a new window). The guideline intends to provide political decision makers with a step-by-step guidance on how to integrate and appropriately cover the cooling sector in an NDC. This is complemented by benchmarking tool that aims at enabling decision-makers to do a self-analysis on the level of ambition of cooling sector-related measures included in the current or future updated NDCs.
Agenda:
Topic | Speaker |
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Welcome Remarks | Philipp Denzinger, GIZ Proklima |
Overview of the objective and approach of the NDC guidelines | Daniela Laßmann, Perspectives Climate Group |
Presentation of the benchmarking tool for cooling-sector related NDCs | Irene Papst, HEAT GmbH |
Questions & Answers | All participants |
Webinar #1: NDC4 Call for Proposals: Raising ambition in NDCs with Green Cooling (22 November 2022, 2-3 pm CET)
The first webinar did provide guidance on how to apply for the NDC4 Call for Proposals (opens in a new window) which provides technical advisory to ambitious countries in the application of best practices for NDC strategy development in the cooling sector. Examples presented by the project coordinators were used to illustrate what the activities can look like in practice. In the following you find all information presented to the audience.
Agenda:
Topic | Speaker |
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Welcome Remarks | GIZ Proklima |
Overview of current status and activities of C4 II | GIZ Proklima |
NDC4 Call for Proposals: • Application procedure • Examples of possible activities that can be supported | Irene Papst, HEAT GmbH |
Questions & Answers | All participants |
Contact
In case of any questions, please contact: ndc4@giz.de
About the project
The global project Cool Contributions fighting Climate Change ll (C4 II) is funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) under the International Climate Initiative (IKI).