The International Greenhouse Gas Conference (IGC), hosted annually by the Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Research Center of Korea (GIR), aims to facilitate the achievement of the Paris Agreement’s goals and optimize decision-making processes for more ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
In previous years, IGC has initiated discussions on the development of NDC 3.0, with a scientific aspects that focusing on institutional arrangements to achieve NDC targets by 2030. The 15th IGC marked a significant step forward by broadening the exchange of national strategies for NDC formulation and fostering the sharing of key approaches and best practices.
The international climate discourse is now shifting beyond setting climate targets to assessing whether those goals can truly attainable—supported by robust policies, institutional frameworks, and social infrastructure. This shift in focus is closely aligned to the Paris Agreement’s implementation framework, which came into full effect in 2024. In this context, the 16th International Greenhouse Gas Conference (IGC) will focus on practical strategies and the current state of readiness among countries to implement their 2035 NDCs.
