This Rwanda's 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution responds decisively to the findings of the first Global Stock Take under the Paris Agreement, setting an ambitious economy-wide mitigation target of 53% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2035 compared to a Business-As-Usual (BAU) scenario, focusing on the following key sectors: land use, land-use change, and forestry, energy, agriculture, waste, industrial process and product use. This Contribution concerns adaptation measures, with a loss and damage response mechanism that ensures strategic access to international finance and special funds, and with measurable interventions across nine priority sectors: water resources, agriculture, land and forestry, urbanisation and human settlements, health, transport, mining, water, sanitation and hygiene as well as cross-cutting areas, including: gender and social inclusion, children and youth, human mobility, short-lived climate pollutants and air quality, disaster risk reduction, creation of green jobs. Concerning water resources management, this Contribution aims to accelerate Rwanda’s transition to Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), focusing on catchment and land restoration, using terracing and agroforestry, and reducing run-off and floods risks, and improving sustainable expansion of irrigation; reducing post-harvest losses with biogas; soil conservation techniques. The Contribution sets a target for implementing hazard-informed land use plans through a national spatial-data infrastructure, steering development away from flood and landslide prone zones; transforming informal settlements and hazard-prone neighbourhoods into planned, climate-resilient communities by integrating stormwater management into city master plans and by expanding green and blue infrastructure. The Contribution provides access to universal and climate-resilient water supply services, with all villages receiving improved water supply and solar-powered water treatment facilities by 2030, in order to ensure water, sanitation and hygiene services and prevent frequent floods and droughts. The Contribution addresses the growing risks of climate change to vector-borne diseases and maternal and neonatal health. Concerning mining, the Contribution adopts climate-compatible practices, such as water efficient processing and dry-stack tailings, by 2030.
Rwanda · 2025-01-01