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NDC Quantification
Pledges to pathways
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NDC Quantification
Pledges to pathways
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NDC Quantification
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of’s latest quantified pledge puts emissions between 10% below and 20% above 2019 levels by 2030.
Pledges to pathways
NDC Quantification
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of’s 2030 pledge: A 52.4% reduction of emissions compared to business-as-usual emissions.
For total GHG emissions excluding LULUCF, that is between 10% below and 20% above 2019 levels by 2030.
Data release 21 October 2026, reflecting the latest submissions
2030 target
192Mt CO₂-eq
From the NDC submitted in Sep 2019SAR, incl. LULUCF
These figures use each pledge’s own scope. The chart below measures every pledge the same way, so its numbers can differ.
Pledges to pathways
The 2030 pledge: A 52.4% reduction of emissions compared to business-as-usual emissions.
Total greenhouse-gas emissions excl. LULUCF for Korea, Democratic People's Republic of, AR6 GWP-100. Shaded bands show the range of published interpretations of each pledge.
Notes: Licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.
Data as of the 21 October 2026 data release
Indicators
Observed values up to 2024. Later years follow the quantified pledge pathway.
2019
94
Mt CO₂-eq
2024
87
Mt CO₂-eq
−7% vs 2019
2030 · projected
112
Mt CO₂-eq
+20% vs 2019
Scope & conditionality
Coverage and conditionality are derived from our structured assessment of the active submission. The target is shown as submitted, in its own scope. The chart above measures every pledge the same way (AR6, excl. LULUCF), so its numbers can differ.
A 16.4% (unconditional) to 52.4% (conditional) reduction of emissions compared to business-as-usual emissions.
Unconditional
192 Mt CO₂-eq
With support
109 Mt CO₂-eq
From the NDC submitted in Sep 2019
“Economy-wide”: the target covers all major sectors. “incl. LULUCF”: includes land use, land-use change and forestry. “SAR”: gases aggregated using IPCC Second Assessment Report 100-year global warming potentials.
Submission history
We have quantified every NDC and long-term strategy Korea, Democratic People's Republic of has submitted since 2015, including the pledges it has since superseded, so the evolution of ambition reads oldest to newest.
NDCs and INDCs
NDC · Oct 2016
2030
Unconditionally: Between 8.0% and 40.2% reduction of emissions compared to business-as-usual emissions.
INDC · Oct 2016
2030
Unconditionally: Between 8.0% and 40.2% reduction of emissions compared to business-as-usual emissions.
NDC · Sep 2019
Active
2030
A 16.4% (unconditional) to 52.4% (conditional) reduction of emissions compared to business-as-usual emissions.
We publish our quantification of each new submission within days of it reaching the UNFCCC registry.
Using the data
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