Namibia

Fifth National Development Plan

Executive

Plan

Passed in 2017

The third pillar of Namibia's Fifth National Development Plan concerns environmental sustainability. Section 4.2 outlines Namibia's climate change goals, including its quantitative emissions reduction targets through 2022. The overall goal of the environmental and climate change management component of Namibia's Fifth National Development Plan is to manage the environment sustainably and improve the country's climate resilience. It identifies four challenges to this goal: population growth and industrialization, weak governance and institutional capacity, vulnerability to climate change, and the centralization of environmental management functions.

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Climate targets in this law

3 targets

By 2022, Namibia has a sustainable mix of locally generated energy capacity of 755 MW to support household and industry development

Energy | Fixed level target | Target year: 2022
By 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, respectively, Namibia will limit its CO2 emissions to 5,933, 6,627, 7,321, 8,014, and 8,708 GgCO2e, the last of which is a 3,733 GgCO2e decline compared with a business as usual scenario

Economy-wide | Trajectory target | Target year: 2022
By 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, respectively, Namibia will reduce the total area burned by veld fires by 0.4, 0.9, 1.4, 1.9, and 2.4 million hectares against a 2015 baseline

LULUCF | Baseline scenario target | Target year: 2022 | Base year: 2015