How to use this portal & background
Purpose of this consultation
This portal supports the stakeholder review of the draft Botswana NDC 3.0 submission. It exists for three reasons:
- Preparation for validation — stakeholders read the full draft and attach comments to specific sections before the validation workshop, so the workshop can focus on resolving substantive issues rather than collecting first reactions. All comments are consolidated into a comment-resolution matrix that feeds the validation report.
- Structured stakeholder input — comments are anchored to the exact section they concern (74 numbered sections), which makes it possible for the drafting team to respond to every input in a traceable way.
- A transparent process — every comment is displayed with the author's full name, organization, and contact email, visible to all approved stakeholders. This mutual visibility documents the consultation, keeps input accountable, and lets participants contact each other directly on shared concerns.
Background — what is NDC 3.0?
Under the Paris Agreement (Article 4), each country communicates a Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) — its national climate pledge — and updates it every five years with increasing ambition. NDC 3.0 is the third generation of these pledges: informed by the outcome of the first Global Stocktake (COP28, Dubai 2023), oriented to the 1.5 °C limit, extending targets to 2035, and prepared following the ICTU guidance (Information for Clarity, Transparency and Understanding).
For Botswana, the NDC 3.0 builds on the 2022 national GHG inventory and sets economy-wide 2035 mitigation targets (a conditional and an unconditional component), an expanded adaptation component, and an implementation and financing framework. An inclusive planning process — which this consultation is part of — is itself an element that must be described in the submitted NDC (ICTU §4a). The NDC 3.0 process is supported by UNDP, with HEAT GmbH acting as technical secretariat.
How to participate (stakeholders)
- Register on the portal start page with your full name, your organization (mandatory), your work email, and a password of your choice (min. 8 characters).
- Wait for approval. The review coordinators check each registration against the invited-stakeholder list. You will see a "pending approval" notice until then — no email is sent, so please check back (or you will be informed through the project's usual channels).
- Read and comment. After approval, sign in to see the full draft, section by section, with a table of contents. Use the comment box under each section to post your input where it belongs. You can see and build on the comments of all other approved stakeholders. You can delete your own comments.
- Check the model assumptions. The Model assumptions tab shows the key inputs behind the scenarios — macroeconomic drivers, sector inputs, emission factors, GWP values, technology unit costs, and sources. If a value does not match your institution's records, comment on it and reference your data source — corrected assumptions directly improve the targets.
Practical tips: keep one comment per issue; reference paragraph or table numbers where helpful; propose concrete alternative wording where you disagree.
For the review coordinators (admins)
- Sign in with your HEAT email — you are recognized automatically and see the Admin link in the top bar.
- On the Admin page: approve or reject registrations (verify name and organization against the invitee list before approving — approval is the only gate).
- Download comments (CSV) at any time — this export is the input for the comment-resolution matrix of the validation workshop.
Questions
Contact the review coordinators: Bianca Köhler · Dietram Oppelt (HEAT GmbH).