To chart the course to a more sustainable future, the historic 2015 Paris Agreement established a goal to limit average global temperature rise to well below 2˚ degrees C, and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5˚ degrees C. To meet this goal, every country is expected to prepare and communicate a nationally determined contribution (NDC) every five years. NDCs include targets, measures and policies and are the basis for national climate action plans. The Paris Agreement also invites countries to submit long-term climate and development strategies to provide a visionary roadmap for countries to achieve complete decarbonization by mid-century and to ensure prosperity for all. Five years after the global pact was adopted, countries are now in the process of updating their NDCs.