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PARTNERSHIP IN ACTION 2020

THE NDC PARTNERSHIP CO-CHAIRS

We knew that 2020 would be important ,			pride . From its launch in December 2016 we
but we can hardly have imagined just			have grown from 43 to more than 180 member
how much . This year we take stock of our			countries and institutions . The Partnership is
progress in sustainable development and			supporting more than 70 countries around the
seek to raise climate ambition as countries			world in implementing their NDCs and raising
revise their NDCs . Yet it is now something			ambition .

even more momentous .

			More importantly , we have firmly established
Sigrid Kaag	Andrea Meza Murillo	The COVID-19 pandemic and its effects call us to reimagine our world ; starting from the resilience and inclusiveness of our societies to the economic basis for our future prosperity , while redoubling our efforts to achieve the goals	a new model of working together . The Partnership puts countries in control of their own climate action by supporting them to mobilize their governments and societies behind a shared plan . These plans — transparent
Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation , The Netherlands

Minister of Environment and Energy , Costa Rica of the Paris Agreement .

For the NDC Partnership too , this is an and country-owned — enable dozens of international partners to offer financial support and expertise to countries while avoiding important moment . At the end of this year the duplication .

Partnership completes its first Work Program . As the Co-Chairs of the Partnership over the

The flexibility of this approach has enabled us to past two years we look back on this period with adapt to new developments . In just the past two