COP30 Outcomes - Implications for advancing climate ambition and implementation in South Asia

18 Dec 2025
13:45 - 15:00 NPT – Kathmandu
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This virtual peer exchange focuses on the outcomes of COP30 and their implications for advancing climate ambition and implementation across South Asia.

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This virtual peer exchange provided a platform for government officials, experts and development partners across South Asia to reflect on the process of developing NDCs and the outcomes of COP30, and discussed how countries can accelerate implementation of their NDC 3.0. It aimed to:

  • COP30 outcomes: Share COP30 outcomes and their implications for advancing climate ambition and implementation in South Asia.
  • Aligning NDC 3.0 Ambition with GST outcomes: Share countries experiences, identify enablers and challenges in preparing and implementing NDC 3.0, and highlight opportunities emerging from the Global Stocktake.
  • Regional collaborations and partnership: Explore how regional collaboration and collectively action can accelerate progress towards achieving the 1.5 C goal, leveraging shared capacities and knowledge.
  • Scaling Implementation and Finance: Discuss how development partners, MDBs, initiatives, and non-state actor can help countries operationalizing NDCs, through enhanced finance, technology, and capacity-building and reflect on related outcomes from COP30.

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Agenda:

  • Welcome
  • Scene-setting Presentation
  • Panel discussion with Government officials, development partners, and experts
  • Q&A with the Audience
  • Closing Remarks 

Speakers

  • Maheshwar Dhakal, Joint Secretary, Climate Change Management Division, Ministry of Forests and Environment, Government of Nepal
  • Md. Ziaul Haque, Additional Director General, Department of Environment, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of Bangladesh
  • Sonam Tashi, Director, Department of Environment and Climate Change, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Royal Government of Bhutan
  • Ravi Shankar Prasad, Distinguished Fellow (Former Chief Climate Negotiator for India), Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)
  • Ranga Pallawala, Climate Change Policy Expert, SWITCH-Asia
  • Deo Gabinete, Regional Manager, Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Pacific, NDC Partnership Support Unit
  • Manjeet Dhakal, Director, Climate Analytics South Asia
  • Moderator: Sneha Pandey, Climate Diplomacy and Policy Analyst, Climate Analytics South Asia
Presentation slides

The peer exchange featured esteemed speakers from the government of Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal, as well as representatives from CEEW, SWITCH-Asia, NYCA and NDC Partnership. Participants learned how governments have aligned their recent NDCs to the first global stocktake outcome and what have been key enablers and challenges when it comes to climate ambition. Speakers also reflected on the COP30 outcomes and the need for more global action to enable deep and sustained emission reduction as well as international cooperation.

Several key messages emerged from the discussions, including the need to:

  • COP30 kept fragile multilateralism alive, delivering political signals and technical progress, but global NDC ambition and implementation must accelerate to close the 1.5°C gap through the COP30 Belém outcomes.
  • mainstream climate actions into the economic planning processes, and develop project pipelines, funding strategies and legal frameworks that enable climate action
  • improve means of implementation and develop global finance architecture for NDC and NAP implementation
  • increase ownership of climate plans at the sub-national level, and regional collaboration on cross-boundary issues
  • enhance circular economy for sustainable material resourcing
  • maintain political vision for a rapid transition to keep 1.5 C within reach and ensure intergenerational justice