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This presentation gives an outline of reporting guidelines to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, specifically focusing on biennial reports and national communications by Parties included in Annex I to the Convention.TRANSCRIPT
Team leader - Finance sub-programmeAlejandro Kilpatrick – Finance, Technology, Capacity Building Programme
Reporting guidelines – biennial reports and national communications
by Parties included in Annex I to the Convention
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Guidelines for the preparation of NatComs by Annex I Parties
• Annex II Parties to provide details of measures taken to give effect to their
commitments;
• What “new and additional” financial resources;
• Assistance provided in meeting the costs of adaptation;
• Bilateral, regional and other multilateral channels;
• Activities undertaken by the public sector and those undertaken by the private sector;
• Indicate, in what way they have encouraged private sector activities, and how these
activities help meet the commitments;
• Activities related to technology transfer;
• Steps to promote, facilitate and finance transfer of technology, and to support
development and enhancement of endogenous capacities and technologies.
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UNFCCC BR guidelines for developed country Parties
• Provision of financial, technological and capacity-building support consistent with
requirements for NatComs;
• How this support is new and additional;
• Support for mitigation and adaptation activities, noting the capacity-building elements.
• Multiple objectives: funding could be reported as a contribution allocated partially to
the other relevant objectives;
• National approach for tracking of the provision of support (indicators and delivery
mechanisms used and allocation channels tracked);
• Description of the methodology used;
• Underlying assumptions and methodologies used to produce information on finance.
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UNFCCC BR guidelines for developed country Parties –
Finance
• How Party seeks to effectively address the mitigation and adaptation needs;
• Financial support provided, committed and/or pledged (mitigation, adaption, response
measures, capacity-building and technology transfer);
• Summary information on allocation channels and annual contributions;
• Summary information on the annual financial support that it has provided for the
purpose of assisting non-Annex I Parties, including: (a) amount; (b) type of support
(for mitigation and adaptation activities); (c) source of funding; (d) financial instrument;
(e) sector; (f) indication of new and additional financial resources, clarify
determination of new and additional;
• Private financial flows leveraged by bilateral climate finance, and report on policies
and measures that promote the scaling up of private investment;
• Specify the types of instruments used in the provision of assistance.
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Status of submissions
• Sixth NatComs (due 1 January 2014): 41 submissions received so far, 3
submissions outstanding;
• First BRs (due 1 January 2014 ): 40 submissions received so far, 4 submissions
outstanding;
• The first round of International Assessment and Reviews has commenced two
months after the submission of the first BRs by developed country Parties;
• The compilation and synthesis report covering the sixth NatComs and the first BRs
will be made available in the second half of 2014;
• The finance portal will be updated to also include the information from the sixth
NatComs and the first BRs (www.unfccc.int/financeportal).
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UNFCCC BR guidelines for developed country Parties – Finance table 7
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UNFCCC BR guidelines for developed country Parties – Finance table 7
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UNFCCC BR guidelines for developed country Parties – Finance table 7 a
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UNFCCC BR guidelines for developed country Parties – Finance table 7 a
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UNFCCC BR guidelines for developed country Parties – Finance table 7 b
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Comparison NatComs - BRs
The reporting requirements have been further defined in the BRs to increase the
overall comparability and transparency of the information provided; some of the
refinements in comparison with the reporting guidelines for the NatComs now request
Parties to include the following information which was not covered in NatComs as
such:
• Clear distinction in terms of: finance, technology development and transfer, and
capacity-building; core/general contribution versus climate-specific contribution to
multilateral institutions; mitigation/adaptation/cross-cutting/other; status (provided,
committed and/or pledged); funding source; financial instruments;
• Definitional issues: Determination of what is new and additional; explanation of
how Party defines funds as being climate-specific;
• Mitigation and adaptation needs: how Party seeks to effectively address;
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Comparison NatComs – BRs – continued
• Methodological issues: underlying assumptions and methodologies used to
produce information on finance; explain methodologies used to specify the
status of funds; approach for tracking of the provision of support;
• Reporting format: e.g. CTF provides for domestic currency and USD;
calendar or financial year distinction; annual basis of information without
overlapping with the previous reporting periods; funding with multiple
objectives; project/programme/country/region based information;
• Additional information: project details and the implementing entity; sectoral
distribution;
• Private financial flows: leveraged by bilateral climate finance, including
policies and measures that promote the scaling up of private investment in
mitigation and adaptation activities in developing country Parties.
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Gaps and Limitations
• The International Review and Assessment (IAR) reports will look into the question
of potential gaps and limitations in the reporting, the results of the first IAR reports
will become available in the second half of this year;
• Basis for technical reviews: guidelines for the technical review of information
reported under the Convention related to greenhouse gas inventories, BRs and
NatComs (decision 23/CP.19);
• Technical examination of Party’s provision of financial, technological and capacity-
building support;
• Issues identified during the review will be identified as relating to: transparency,
completeness, timeliness, and adherence to the BR/NatCom guidelines.
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Thank you very much!
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