In October 2018, participants in a peer-to-peer exchange event on contextualizing South Africa’s NDC emphasized ‘the need to de-mystify the NDC’ and to make it ‘less political and more technically accessible.’ Hosted in Durban, South Africa the event brought together representatives of South African cities, city networks and the South African National Treasury’s Cities Support Programme, and highlighted the desire of local decision-makers to know how they could contribute to achieving South Africa’s NDC target.