Liberia

Liberia commits to reducing its economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 64% below the projected business-as-usual level by 2030, through a combination of the following: unconditional GHG reductions of 10% below BAU, resulting in an absolute emissions level of 11,187Gg CO2e in 2030; with an additional 54% reduction conditional upon international support, which would result in an absolute emissions level of 4,536.64 Gg CO2e in 2030. 

The country will consider inclusion of international carbon market mechanisms, including cooperative approaches under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, as these economic instruments, supported by appropriate accounting systems (i.e., MRV systems), can be used to help finance low-carbon and climate-resilient infrastructure investments. Liberia considers that some low carbon development options in the NDC, or additional actions, could be financed in full or in part, through the transfer of international carbon credits/assets or results-based financing, in line with the guidance to be agreed under Article 6, taking into account environmental integrity and transparency. 

The NDC contains the following measures: 

Agriculture 

• Roll out incentives and programs to implement low-emissions livestock systems, with practices to improve pasture and manure management, reach the optimal intensity of grazing, and reduce enteric fermentation. 
• Implement sustainable, low-carbon development of 150,000 ha of lowland crop systems, 500,000 ha of upland sedentary crop systems, and 500,000 ha of pastureland by 2030. 

• Ensure 1,500 agricultural households adopt sustainable agriculture, animal husbandry, soil conservation, and organic/manure management practices by 2030.
• Roll out incentives and programs to promote low-carbon agriculture practices, e.g., conservation agriculture, no/low tillage, agro-silvopastoral systems, improved lowland rice cultivation (SRI), multi-cropping, organic fertilizers, fertigation, composting, crop rotation, and
  sustainable agricultural waste management.

…and more. 

Forests 

• Reduce GHG emissions from avoided forest conversion by 2030 through enhanced implementation of the National REDD+ Strategy.
• Improve national programs and policies to reduce GHG emissions by incentivizing sustainable fuelwood and charcoal production by 2030. 
• Establish 5 new Protected Areas to complement the existing government commitment to increase forest Protected Areas to 1.5 million ha, ensuring a 3km buffer zone, by 2030.

…and more. 

Coastal zones 

• Enhance national policies, plans and incentives to increase mangrove and coastal conservation and restoration, based on a survey analysis of coastal zone ecosystems to identify threats and priority action areas.
• Expand marine and coastal ecosystem protection by establishing 2 Marine and 2 Coastal Protected Areas and develop new or updated Protected Area management plans by 2030.
• Hold 19 trainings per year to improve capacity building for coastal managers and communities to implement coastal mitigation actions, which will support uptake of best practices for climate-smart coastal management, monitoring and conservation and enable coastal communities to support conservation efforts by 2025.

…and more. 

Fisheries 

• Reduce GHG emissions by harnessing the mitigation co-benefits of the Fisheries sector adaptation targets and develop a system to measure and track these benefits by 2030. 
• Develop a program to provide trainings about and incentives for fisher-folk to adopt eco-stove fish dryers to reduce GHG emissions and discourage mangrove deforestation from usual methods by 2025. 

Health 

• Reduce GHG emissions by harnessing the mitigation co-benefits of the health sector adaptation targets and develop a system to measure and track these benefits by 2030. 
• Develop and implement programs to improve healthcare waste management practices and reduce GHG emissions from waste incineration by following reduce, re-use, recycle, and compost best practices by 2030. 

Transport 

• Financial measures through: 

• the implementation of a vehicle labelling system which is an information system which registers the level of GHG emissions for each vehicle by 2025. 
• the implementation of a fee bate / rebate programme through which the government levies fees on relatively high GHG emitting vehicles and provides rebates on lower emitting vehicles by 2025. 
• the enforcement and adaptation of registration taxes, in particular with and the enforcement of the 10% tax on luxury vehicles and the integration of a tax on transit vehicles by 2025. 

• Consumer information campaigns through heightened driver awareness about better ways of driving cars through eco-driving, speed reduction and use of well-adjusted motors, electric and Compressed Natural Gas vehicles and promotion of public transport through the use of bus transport network and car sharing.
• Promote diesel particulate filters for road and off-road vehicles. 

…and more. 

Industry 

•  Implement a Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) tax for regulating the consumption of fluorinated gases in the air conditioning and refrigeration sector. 
•  Increase the percentage of low-GWP alternatives in economy-wide uses of HFCs, consistent with the HFC phase-down level. 
• Provide incentives for companies and consumers to replace high-Global Warming Potential (GWP) HFC commercial equipment or appliances with low-GWP alternatives. 

…and more. 

 Energy  

•  Improve the policymaking capacity with better cross sectoral coordination and implementation with focus on low GHG enabling investments. 

•  Capacity Building in NDC: Emission Reduction policies and implementation. 
•  Liaise with WAPP to create a strategy to obtain cleaner electricity in the dry season, avoiding in this way the uses of fossil fuel for electricity generation in that season. 

…and more. 

 Waste 

•  Strengthening of the institutional and legal situation at national and municipal levels by 2025. 
•  Strengthen of operational and financial management capacities at the community and institutional level for integrated waste management by 2025. 
•  Public participation and capacity building through education and awareness raising programs to enhance awareness on proper waste management practice by 2025. 

…and more. 

Energy, Industrial Processes and Product Use, Agriculture, Waste, Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry. 

The NDC Costing and Cost-Benefit analysis estimated that a total investment of US$490,590,000 dollars through 2025 will be needed to achieve Liberia’s NDC mitigation and adaptation targets. Of this amount, US$400,645,000 dollars will be required to achieve Liberia’s mitigation targets, whilst US$89,945,000 dollars will be required to achieve its adaptation targets. To achieve the conditional portion of its NDC target, Liberia intends to mobilize approximately US$460,000,000 dollars from the private sector, bilateral and multilateral sources and all other sources, mechanisms, and instruments.