Zambia's Revised and Updated NDC, submitted on 30 July 2021, commits to a conditional pledge of 25% (with limited support) to 47% (with substantial international support) reduction against a 2010-base business-as-usual scenario by 2030, broadened to cover transport, liquid waste and coal.
Projects
Emerging Cooking Solutions (SupaMoto)
SupaMoto pairs biomass pellets from timber-mill waste with fan-assisted gasifying stoves.
Energy for Agriculture (E4A) biogas market development
SNV's Energy for Agriculture programme develops Zambia's biogas market for households and businesses.
Lower Zambezi REDD+
Long-running Zambian REDD+ protecting the Lower Zambezi landscape.
Luangwa Community Forests Project
Africa's largest REDD+ project by area, protecting a lion stronghold across 30 chiefdoms.
Restore Africa
A six-country restoration programme whose lead organisation entered liquidation in July 2026.
Solar Lighting Project in Zambia
A Gold Standard-registered programme distributing solar lights to Zambian households, replacing kerosene lamps and candles.
TASC Improved Cookstoves for Rural Zambia
A Gold Standard-listed cookstove project that has distributed over 145,000 stoves in rural Zambia.
WeForest Copperbelt
Restoring degraded miombo woodland on Copperbelt farmland through natural regeneration and agroforestry.
Regulation
Framework law
"An Act to provide for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction; provide for climate change mitigation, low emission development, green economy and related actions; regulate carbon markets; provide for environmental and social safeguards in climate change actions; establish the Climate Change Fund; domesticate the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement; and provide for matters connected with, or incidental to, the foregoing." / "1. This Act may be cited as the Green Economy and Climate Change Act, 2024, and shall come into operation on the date that the Minister may appoint by statutory instrument."long title and s.1 (Short title and commencement); Date of Assent 20th December, 2024 on the Act's first page
Provides for adaptation and disaster risk reduction, mitigation and low emission development, regulates carbon markets (certificates of authorisation valid five years), sets environmental and social safeguards, establishes a Green Economy and Climate Change Council and Fund, and domesticates the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement.
Issuing body: Parliament of Zambia · Single source
NDC
"Zambia intends to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 25% (at Business As Usual (BAU) level of international support prevailing in 2015) and towards 47% (with substantial international support) compared to 2010 levels."Annex 1, p.2, "Updated as of 30th July 2021"
Conditional pledge of 25% (unconditional/limited support) to 47% (with substantial international support) reduction against 2010-base BAU by 2030; base-year emissions 120,604 Gg CO2-eq; broadened to cover transport, liquid waste and coal.
Issuing body: Ministry of Green Economy and Environment · Corroborated