Morocco

مصر

Core analysis conducted in 2024

Overall NDC Equity Score

Insufficient

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Emissions Reductions

Aspiring

NDC makes a strong effort to create ambitious emissions reduction goals, but lacks strong fossil fuel phase-out targets.

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Gender Justice

Insufficient

NDC made an effort to acknowledge the disproportionate impacts of climate on women and gender, but it insufficiently addresses long-term solutions or inclusion.

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Youth Inclusion

Insufficient

NDC made an effort to include young people in the NDC development process, but does not provide measures for sustained inclusion or specific indicators for youth-centered actions.

Summary

Morocco is a regional leader in climate action, recognized for its ambitious commitments, especially in renewable energy, with a strong focus on solar power. However, the country faces severe climate vulnerabilities, particularly in water scarcity, which threatens its agriculture-dependent economy. Projections indicate increasing drought and declining crop yields, exacerbating socio-economic challenges such as unemployment and rural-urban disparities. Despite these risks, Morocco remains committed to climate resilience and a low-carbon transition through ambitious policies and international cooperation.

 

On emissions reduction, the NDC introduced an ambitious target of redcucing 45.5% of GHGs before 2030 compared with a business-as-usual scenario, which is on track with the 1.5 degrees goal. Despite its low contribution to the overall GHG emissions and taking into consideration its unique national context and capacities, Morocco with international support, should commit to a coal phase-out from the power mix.

 

On gender mainstreaming, the NDC recognizes women as a vulnerable group to the climate crisis and was developed in a gender-sensitive manner. However, stronger action can be taken to further mainstream women inclusion as stakeholders and decision-makers.

 

On youth inclusion, Morocco has various formal avenues and training programs for youth to contribute to the climate agenda. However the NDC fails to recognize youth as key stakeholders in climate action and mention how the youth perspectives were considered in the NDC.

Highlights

  • The updated NDC was developed through participation and engagement with indigenous peoples and local communities in a gender-sensitive manner
  • The updated NDC targets a 45.5% GHG emissions reduction by 2030 compared with a ‘business-as-usual’ (BAU) scenario
  • The updated NDC has a portfolio of 61 mitigation projects, 27 of which are conditioned on international support

Lowlights

  • The updated NDC lacks youth perspectives
  • The updated NDC lacks consistent intersectional gender-sensitive mainstreaming

Key Recommendations

Although Morocco in recent years progressively made efforts to include gender-sensitive considerations in its measures directed to emit less GHG, its efforts cannot be implemented efficiently without gender justice. Here are the recommendations for gender mainstreaming in the NDCs:

Moroccan youth are actively taking charge of climate action. To promote youth inclusion in the NDCs, here are the recommendations:

For Gender Mainstreaming

  • Examine the specific interrelationships between climate change, gender relations and power dynamics and their role in each environmental degrading region in the country
  • Create intersectional approach with specific gender targets in both adaptation and mitigation targets in the upcoming NDCs

For Youth Inclusion

  • Mainstreaming youths’ unique experiences and challenges, perspectives and needs throughout the upcoming NDC
  • Establishing through an intersectional approach, youth focal points in each city of the country, especially in the main environmental degrading target areas, for their key involvement in the development process of the upcoming NDC
  • Explicitly positioning youths as key beneficiaries of climate action efforts

NDC Ambassador - Author

Racha Zahira Ammati

Racha Zahira Ammati, is a Moroccan International Gender Equality and Social Inclusion consultant. She has a background in International Relations, Political Science and Interdisciplinary Gender and Development Studies. Her technical expertise has provided her the ability to understand, bring fresh perspectives and intersectional insights to women’s
rights’ struggles internationally. She has experience working with different international organizations such as the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN ECLAC), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), UNESCO, The International and Ibero-American Foundation for Administration and Public Policies (FIIAPP) and most recently UN Women. She is thrilled to keep investing her knowledge, expertise and passion navigating the spaces that unite women’s struggles and challenges internationally. In her work, she is always sharing and forming robust intercultural connections and relationships, through her journey directed to achieve transformative change and the creation of positive impacts for those that are the most oppressed, marginalized and vulnerable in our societies on a global scale.

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