UN General Assembly
2021

Furthermore, several initiatives and programmes have been implemented by the Government of Lesotho to address the impacts of climate change. For instance, Lesotho submitted its nationally determined contributions report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in June 2018, outlining the initiatives to be undertaken to reduce greenhouse gases and adapt to climate change. In addition, some of the noteworthy initiatives are the integrated catchment management, the improvement of the early-warning system, the formulation of the national adaptation plan, and improving the adaptive capacity of vulnerable and food-insecure populations in the country. Again, Lesotho intends to unconditionally lower its net greenhouse-gas emissions by 10 per cent by 2030 and to further push for an additional 25 per cent greenhouse-gas emission reduction, provided that external support, including capacity-building, is made available to us to cover the full cost of implementing the adaptation and mitigation actions.