Climate mitigation policy
Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA)
Definition
Nationally appropriate mitigation actions are measures that reduce emissions in developing countries, prepared under the umbrella of a national governmental initiative in the context of sustainable development — ranging from single projects to sector-wide policies. Originating in the 2007 Bali Action Plan, NAMAs were to be supported and enabled by technology, financing and capacity-building, aiming at deviation from business-as-usual emissions by 2020.
References
definition, two levels, registry, support basis
Overview
What it means
NAMAs functioned at two levels: formal national submissions of intent (communicated under decision 1/CP. 16) and individual registered actions seeking support through the UNFCCC NAMA Registry. They were the pre-Paris vehicle for developing-country mitigation engagement.
How it is used
Dozens of countries submitted NAMAs; the concept's legacy lives on in NDCs, which absorbed its nationally determined logic, and in support-matching platforms for sectoral mitigation programmes.
Why it matters
NAMAs pioneered the idea that developing-country mitigation would be nationally defined but internationally supported — the template for the NDC-and-finance architecture of the Paris Agreement. **Note:** In-batch merges: 1799 "NAMA" and 1800 "NAMAs" (abbreviation and plural) → this entry.