December 12, 2020 is the five year anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement. On that day a number of governments, civil society organizations, and other world leaders will convene virtually for a Climate Ambition Summit hosted by the United Nations, the United Kingdom, and France, in partnership with Chile and Italy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The idea behind the summit is to encourage governments around the world to submit what are known as enhanced Nationally Determined Contributions, or NDCs. These NDCs are each countries\u2019 individual plans to take on climate change within their own national contexts. NDCs are the core of the Paris Agreement and when it was signed in 2015 there was an explicit expectation among the parties that in 5 years each country would re-sumbit revised NDCs that were of increased ambition \u2014 that is, the NDCs that countries were to announce in 2020 would do more and be farther reaching than the NDCs of 2015.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n