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Transitioning to the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) under the Paris Agreement (PA) from the current measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) arrangements under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) requires developing countries to enhance their national reporting systems in a sustainable way. There are...

　2021年11月に開催された国連気候変動枠組条約（UNFCCC）第26回締約国会議（COP26）において、パリ協定の世界全体の進捗状況を評価する仕組みであるグローバル・ストックテイク（Global Stocktake：GST）が開始した。これを受けて2022年3月以降、UNFCCC事務局は4つの統合報告書を順次公開する。これら統合報告書は、国連気候変動政府間パネル（IPCC）第6次評価報告書等の様々な情報源と共に、GSTの技術的評価に必要な情報を提供する。 　本稿では4つの統合報告書のうち、『GHG排出・吸収量の状況と緩和努力に関する統合報告書』（UNFCCC, 2022）のポイントを分かりやすく解説する。同報告書は締約国が提出した以下の情報を統合した結果を示している。 ・先進国全43か国...

This report summarizes the key discussion points of the two-day Asian Transparency Workshop on December 13-14, 2021. The workshop aims to strengthen understanding of how to prepare reporting in Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs) under Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF). More specifically, the workshop focused on reporting mitigation actions...

This technical summary report presents the results of the technical analysis of biennial update reports of Zambia submitted in 2020, conducted by a team of technical experts in accordance with the modalities and procedures contained in the annex to decision 20/CP.19. The author at IGES (Chisa Umemiya) served as one of the co-leads.

The objective of this paper is to provide good practices as recommended solutions to address the three common challenges that developing countries often encounter when preparing national reporting (e.g., BURs, NCs). Countries aiming to strengthen their national reporting systems for transitioning to the enhanced transparency framework (ETF) can...