Please find below comments from Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change, on China's NDC submitted on 3 November 2025, and others. You can also find the comments on LinkedIn here. All submitted NDCs are available in the registry here.
"China's updated NDC is a significant moment in our collective climate effort.
China's NDC will deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy at an unprecedented scale and help accelerate the transition by lowering the cost of clean technologies and driving innovation.
Today's news is another signal that the future global economy will run on clean energy.
NDCs will be among the most important policy documents this century because they can accelerate economic transformation, driving more economic growth, jobs, affordable and secure energy, cleaner air, and better health.
China, like so many other countries, sees a clear national interest in building a cleaner, more prosperous future, with President Xi noting at the Secretary-General's recent climate summit that "green and low-carbon transition is the trend of the time''.
Every day now, new NDCs are being submitted by economies around the world, and more are expected in the coming days.
In the past few weeks alone, we have also received new NDCs from: Indonesia, South Africa, Malaysia, Côte d'Ivoire, Mauritania, Zambia, and Cabo Verde, adding to those previously submitted.
Recent data shows how far we've come and how much further we still have to go. But I'm encouraged by President Xi's remarks at the recent climate summit, and reflected fully in today NDC submission, committing both to emissions reduction targets and saying that China will be striving to do better.
President Xi, like so many leaders, recognizes that change is happening fast, sometimes even faster than governments can account for.
In that light, I hope that the NDCs we receive will be a floor, not a ceiling for ambition. And that every country sees it in its interest to go further and faster, to protect all their people from worsening climate disasters, and reap the vast human and economic benefits of stronger climate action."
