Brief on Laos’ NDC and forestry sector was launched at a knowledge sharing and closing event on the decade-long ASFCC partnership

JAKARTA – (Mar. 3, 2020) At a knowledge sharing and closing event in Jakarta last week, delegates celebrated over a decade of partnership, sharing lessons and results from the ASEAN Swiss Partnership on Social Forestry and Climate Change (ASFCC) funded by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). Delegates reflected on lessons from ASFCC and explored the potential for enhancing collaborative action on social forestry, climate change and related issues of sustainable development, CIFOR launched a brief on “Laos’ Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC): Progress, opportunities, and challenges in the forestry sector.” The case of Lao PDR is particularly interesting as it was the first country in Asia to declare its Nationally Determined Contributions in 2015 and currently is developing a second NDC for submission to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the end of 2020.