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  • 2025
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How has the Paris Agreement shaped mitigation policy? Assessing progress at ten years

On November, 17, this session, organized by OECD, will explore the Paris Agreement’s impact on climate change mitigation action and policies, as the Agreement marks its 10th anniversary. Henri Waisman, DDP Director, will present the latest 2025 DDP report (…)

How has the Paris Agreement shaped mitigation policy? Assessing progress at ten years

  • Europe, France

Online | Nov 17, 2025 | 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

As the Paris Agreement marks its 10th anniversary, this session organized by OECD (opening remarks by Walid Oueslati, Head of Climate, Biodiversity and Water Division, and moderation by Elisa Lanzi, Senior Economist, Climate Mitigation, OECD) explores its impact on climate change mitigation action and policies.   

Drawing on insights from a novel global OECD survey of policymakers and non-governmental experts, this session will highlight how the Agreement has shaped national mitigation policies, the barriers that continue to hinder implementation and the policy priorities moving forward. 

Henri Waisman, Director of the Deep Decarbonization Pathways programme, IDDRI, will present the 2025 DDP report: A Decade of National Climate Action: Stocktake And The Road Ahead.


The OECD will present key findings from the survey, presented in the recently published report “The Paris Agreement at Ten Years: Expert Views on Progress and Challenges for Climate Change Mitigation”. A panel of experts and stakeholders will then reflect on progress made, remaining gaps and next steps to highlight how climate action can evolve to meet the urgency of the climate crisis.

  • 2050 is Now
  • Event
  • 2025
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Achieving carbon neutrality: how to ensure a just transition?

On October 8, IDDRI, Centro Clima / Coppe / UFRJ and partner institutions gathered on Wednesday, October 8, at the Consulate General of France in Rio de Janeiro to discuss the conditions that allow large emerging economies, such as Brazil, to advance towards carbon neutrality in a socially just manner, combining economic growth with the reduction of inequality and poverty.

Achieving carbon neutrality: how to ensure a just transition?

  • Brazil, France

Centro Clima / Coppe / UFRJ/ IDDRI and partner institutions gathered on Wednesday, October 8, at the Consulate General of France in Rio de Janeiro, to debate the theme “Achieving Climate Neutrality: How to Ensure a Just Transition?”. With simultaneous translation available, international specialists discussed decarbonization, just energy transition, and climate change, key themes of the Paris Agreement.

The seminar was promoted by Centro Clima, a laboratory linked to the Energy Planning Program (PPE/Coppe/UFRJ), in partnership with the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) and the World Resources Institute (WRI), with support from the Consulate General of France and the Institut Français. It is labeled as part of the 2025 France-Brazil Crossed Season.

The aim was to discuss the conditions that allow large emerging economies, such as Brazil, to advance towards carbon neutrality in a socially just manner, combining economic growth with the reduction of inequality and poverty.

Among the participants there were key decision-makers such as Ambassador André Corrêa
do Lago, president of COP30; Ana Toni, Executive Director of COP30; Céline Kauffmann, from IDDRI; Jean-Charles Hourcade, from CIRED; Professor Emilio La Rovere, coordinator of Centro Clima/Coppe/UFRJ; researchers Carolina Dubeux and William Wills, also from Centro Clima; in addition to Professor Suzana Kahn, Director of Coppe/UFRJ, and Professor Marcello Campos, Vice-Director of the institution.

The meeting had as the starting point the discussions of the 2025 Report – A Decade of
Climate Action: Balance and Perspectives, launched on October 6 at the Brazilian Embassy in Paris, by the Deep Decarbonization Pathways (DDP) initiative.

The event was also part of the international project “2050 is Now”, coordinated by IDDRI in partnership with WRI, Centro Clima/Coppe, and other international institutions, with support from the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German government. The project promotes dialogue among experts from various countries to identify challenges and opportunities for international cooperation, supporting governments in developing long-term low-emission development strategies (LTS).

By actively participating in these initiatives, Coppe/ UFRJ reaffirmed its strategic role in the scientific and technical formulation of solutions for addressing climate change, contributing to Brazil and the world advancing towards a just, inclusive, and sustainable energy transition.
The seminar had a duration from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., with simultaneous translation in Portuguese, French, and English, and was held in a hybrid format, with in-person attendance and online transmission via Zoom.

Presentation and full agenda of the event (pdf)

Session 1a – Download the presentation from Henri Waisman, DDP programme Director, IDDRI
Session 1b – Download the presentation from Prof. Emilio Lèbre La Rovere Centro Clima / COPPE / UFRJ
Session 2a – Download the presentation from Marat Torres-Gunfaus, Climate programme Director, IDDRI
Session 3a – Download the presentation from Prof. Emilio Lèbre La Rovere Centro Clima / COPPE / UFRJ with Carolina Dubeux and William Wills
Session 4a – Download the presentation from Jean-Charles Hourcade, Director, Cired-CNRS, France

  • DDP
  • Publication
  • 2025
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A Decade of National Climate Action: Stocktake And The Road Ahead

Ten years on from the Paris Agreement the report “A Decade of National Climate Action: Stocktake and the Road Ahead” analyzes what has been the real effect of the Paris Agreement on climate action. Complementarily to globalheadlines, the report is grounded on a detailed analysis of climate action at the national level from DDP experts across 21 countries, representing a diversity of geographies, levels of development, and sizes (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Dominican Republic, France, EU, Germany, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Thailand, United States).

A Decade of National Climate Action: Stocktake And The Road Ahead

Ten years on from the Paris Agreement the report “A Decade of National Climate Action: Stocktake and the Road Ahead” analyzes what has been the real effect of the Paris Agreement on climate action.

Complementarily to globalheadlines, the report is grounded on a detailed analysis of climate action at the national level from DDP experts across 21 countries, representing a diversity of geographies, levels of development, and sizes.

  • Senegal
  • Event
  • 2025
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High-level dialogue: Senegal’s long-term strategies (LTS)

On July 10, IDDRI and ENDA Energie co-organized a high-level event in Dakar on Senegal’s long-term strategies (LTS), as part of the DDP Senegal project funded by the French Development Agency (AFD). The initiative aims to strengthen the country’s technical and institutional capacities to better align short-term decisions with long-term sustainable development pathways..

High-level dialogue: Senegal’s long-term strategies (LTS)

  • Senegal

On July 10, IDDRI and ENDA Energie co-organized a high-level event in Dakar on Senegal’s long-term strategies (LTS), as part of the DDP Senegal project funded by the French Development Agency (AFD). The initiative aims to strengthen the country’s technical and institutional capacities to better align short-term decisions with long-term sustainable development pathways.
During the event, four contrasting energy transition scenarios for 2050 were presented:

  • a scenario that continues current trends;
  • two scenarios that achieve the objectives of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) by 2030, one based on gas development and the other on renewables;
  • and a scenario focused on energy efficiency, combining demand-side measures and accelerated deployment of renewable energy.

The event brought together ENDA Energie, IDDRI, AFD, the African Climate Foundation, as well as representatives from the Ministry of Environment and Ecological Transition (METE) and the Ministry of Energy, Petroleum and Mines (MEPM).

  • JUSTPATH
  • Meeting
  • 2025
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HOW TO REACH CARBON NEUTRALITY? Insights from national pathways to net zero in large emitting countries

This event presented long-term transformations and immediate actions required to achieve carbon neutrality, consistently with the objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement. These insights emerged from detailed analysis of national pathways to net zero in 9 large emitting countries conducted by in-country experts in the Deep Decarbonization Pathways initiative.

HOW TO REACH CARBON NEUTRALITY? Insights from national pathways to net zero in large emitting countries

Practical information

Date: July 3rd, 2025
Time 9:45am-11:30am
Location: Mundo Madou, Avenue des Arts 7/8, Bruxelles (Belgium)
Format : In-person public event

Short description of the event

This event, co-organised by IDDRI think tank and the Institute for European Environmental Policy – IEEP, explored long-term transformations and immediate actions required to achieve carbon neutrality, consistent with the objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement and socioeconomic objectives.

Dr. Vidhee Avashia, IIMA, India
Alicia Zhao from the University of Maryland, USA

These insights are drawn from a detailed analysis presented in the DDP Annual report 2024, based on national pathways to net zero in nine large-emitting countries, conducted by in-country experts as part of the Deep Decarbonization Pathways initiative.

After a short overview of cross-country insights, national experts from 6 countries (Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa and the United States) provided a snapshot on their country-driven analysis, including concrete and tangible examples of key transformations and actions. Reactions from the EU perspective were provided and an open Q&A allowed participants to discuss directly with panelists.

List of speakers

  • Henri Waisman, Director of the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Initiative (DDP), IDDRI
  • Antoine Oger, Director of the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP)
  • Speakers from EEAS
  • DDP country expert from 6 countries:
    • Brazil: Dr. Emilio Lebre La Rovere, Director of CentroClima, COPPE – University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE-UFRJ)
    • India: Dr Vidhee Avashia, Senior Researcher, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA)
    • Indonesia: Dr. Rizaldi Boer, Director of the International Research Institute for Environment and Climate Change, IPB University
    • Mexico: Daniel Buira, Co-founder and Scientific Director, Tempus Analitica (TA)
    • South Africa: Dr. Bryce McCall, Researcher at ESRG, University of Cape Town (UCT)
    • The United States: Alicia Zhao or Christoph Bertram, University of Maryland (UMD)

This event is organized in the context of the JUSTPATH project, a DG CLIMA-funded global action project which focuses on supporting countries and stakeholders in creating and expanding the robust modelling base for domestic mitigation action, feeding into both national and international processes.

See and download the presentation

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  • Senegal
  • Meeting
  • 2025
ENDA in Paris

Energy transition in Senegal

Samba Fall, Cheikh Dieylani Diop and Ansoumana Djite from ENDA Energie in Dakar joined the DDP Secretariat in Paris for a week of intensive work to develop and model pathways for the Senegalese energy transition as part of the DDP Senegal project, supported by AFD

Energy transition in Senegal

  • France, Senegal

Last week, Samba Fall, Cheikh Dieylani Diop and Ansoumana Djite from ENDA Energie in Dakar joined the DDP Secretariat in Paris for a week of intensive work to develop and model pathways for the Senegalese energy transition as part of the DDP Senegal project, supported by AFD. This involved exploring different pathways of how Senegal can fulfill commitments under the Just Energy Transition Partnership with France, Germany and the EU, while achieving universal electricity access and supporting economic development. Results from the DDP Senegal project will be published in a few weeks.

With (from left to right): Clara Lepin, DDP Secretariat in Paris
Henri Waisman, Director, DDP Secretariat in Paris
Ansoumana Djite, ENDA Energie, Senegal
Cheikh Dieylani Diop, ENDA Energie, Senegal
Yann Briand, DDP Secretariat in Paris
Samba Fall, ENDA Energie, Senegal
Alexandre Tourbah, CIRED, France
Johannes Svensson, DDP Secretariat in Paris (missing on the photo)

  • Workshop
  • 2024
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Launch of the “Luiz Pinguelli Rosa” chair, a desirable future: Just Transition to Climate Compatible Development in Brazil

On October 18th, COPPE organized an event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in honour of the late Luiz Pinguelli Rosa to discuss these proposals with high-rank Brazilian Government officials (…)
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Launch of the “Luiz Pinguelli Rosa” chair, a desirable future: Just Transition to Climate Compatible Development in Brazil

  • Brazil

On October 18th, COPPE organized an event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in honour of the late Luiz Pinguelli Rosa to discuss these proposals with high-rank Brazilian Government officials (Ana Toni, From the Ministry of Environment; and André Corrêa do Lago, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) together with Izabella Teixeira, former Minister of Environment and other co-authors of the papers (J.C. Hourcade from CIRED, France and Maria Netto, from iCS). 

  • Publication
  • 2024
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NDC – LT-LEDS alignment guide: Aligning short-term plans with long-term ambitions

This guide was developed through close collaboration between the 2050 Pathways Platform and the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Initiative (DDP) at IDDRI. In order to help countries achieve alignment of short-term plans with the long-term systemic transformations needed to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.
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NDC – LT-LEDS alignment guide: Aligning short-term plans with long-term ambitions

  • Chile, Europe, India, Marocco

This guide was developed through close collaboration between the 2050 Pathways Platform and the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Initiative (DDP) at IDDRI. In order to help countries achieve alignment of short-term plans with the long-term systemic transformations needed to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, it provides a practical framework based on the premise that countries can fully understand how their NDCs align with the Paris Agreement only by viewing alignment through the lens of a Long-Term Low Emission Development Strategy (LT-LEDS), which can highlight transformations and actions that might be overlooked in a short-term perspective, expanding the scope of the alignment process. It also also includes four country case studies (Chile, European Union, Morocco, India) presenting real examples of alignment.

  • DDP
  • Publication
  • 2024
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DDP Annual Report 2024

This 2024 report analyzes detailed scenarios from ten countries collectively representing nearly half of the world’s population and a significant portion of global emissions: Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and the United States, based on in-country perspectives from local experts. The report’s deep decarbonization scenarios showcase a variety of pathways to achieve carbon neutrality while maintaining economic growth and improving social well-being

DDP Annual Report 2024

  • Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, USA

This 2024 report analyzes detailed scenarios from ten countries collectively representing nearly half of the world’s population and a significant portion of global emissions: Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and the United States, based on in-country perspectives from local experts.
The report’s deep decarbonization scenarios showcase a variety of pathways to achieve carbon neutrality while maintaining economic growth and improving social well-being