These are crucial if countries are to meet the central goal of the Paris Agreement to keep the rise in the earth’s temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels by the year 2100, and pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1,5°C above pre-industrial levels. In these countries, economic cycles are synchronized with commodity price cycles, implying that their economies grow faster during commodity price booms but slow down during commodity price slumps. As episodes of commodity price slumps are generally longer than boom periods, CDDCs experience, on average, slower growth than other countries. Commodity dependence affects economic performance through several channels.