Tonga's intended contribution are designed to be quantified at the national level cascaded to the sector level as follows:
50% of electricity generation from renewable sources by 2020. In 2015 renewable energy accounts for approximately 9% of total electricity generation, with confirmed and funded investments taking this to 13% in 2016.
70% of electricity generation from renewable sources by 2030
Improve Energy efficiency through reduction of electricity line losses to 9 percent by 2020 (from a baseline of 18 percent in 2010)
To double the 2015 number of Marine Protected Areas by 2030
Sector Emission Reduction Targets: Transport, Agriculture, Environment Friendly Waste Management and Reforestation
Other Sectors Climate Resilience: Public Infrastructures, foreshore protection, buildings and houses
Tonga submitted their Intended nationally determined contributions (INDC) to the UNFCCC Secretariat on the 4th of December 2015.
No further revisions were undertaken and the same document was endorsed and submitted as the First nationally determined contributions on 21st September 2016.
Document downloaded from the NDC registry:
INDC - http://www4.unfccc.int/submissions/indc/Submission%20Pages/submissions.aspx
NDC - http://www4.unfccc.int/ndcregistry/Pages/All.aspx
Keywords: INDC, NDC, RE, renewable energy, target, NAMA, mitigation, climate change, adaptation, conditional
