The Scaling up Climate Ambition on Land Use and Agriculture through Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plans (SCALA) programme is a multi-year initiative led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN) through the International Climate Initiative (IKI).
SCALA supports more than 20 countries, including Cambodia, to strengthen policies, adopt innovative approaches to climate change adaptation, and remove barriers related to information gaps, governance, finance, gender mainstreaming and integrated monitoring and reporting. SCALA also supports countries to develop capacity to own and lead the process to meet targets set out in their national adaptation plans and nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement.
As part of its support to Cambodia, SCALA conducted workshops in October 2024 with representatives of Cambodian government ministries on the use of the Nationally Determined Contribution Expert Tool (NEXT), developed by FAO. This document presents exercises conducted for these workshops as well as exercise results based on inputs to the NEXT tool.