The Capacity-building Initiative for Transparency - Global Support Programme (CBIT-GSP) invites you to the launch event of the newly developed guidance “Preparing the adaptation chapter of biennial transparency reports: A template for countries” which is aimed at supporting countries in reporting adaptation and loss and damage in their biennial transparency reports.

High-quality adaptation reporting has become more pertinent under the Paris Agreement, with vital processes such as the global stocktake being extremely reliant on the information reported by Parties to assess progress made towards achieving the Paris Agreement’s global goal on adaptation.

To date, adaptation information reported by Parties has typically been insufficiently comparable and complete, and reported too infrequently. This hinders robust assessments of global progress. The introduction of Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs) – with their more detailed guidance for adaptation reporting and more frequent reporting cycles – represents an opportunity for countries to make this information available to the UNFCCC.

To this end, the CBIT-GSP has developed a new guide to support countries to prepare high-quality adaptation reports. The guide  is intended to supplement the official guidance agreed at COP negotiations by providing users with a suggested template through which they can structure the adaptation chapters of their BTRs and detailed guidance concerning the information that is relevant to report within each section of the template.

The guidance also provides users with a detailed description of the roles that adaptation reporting is meant to play in the UNFCCC process, how Parties can leverage it for other means, and how adaptation reporting can speak to the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience, agreed at COP28 to articulate the Paris Agreement’s global goal on adaptation.

About the CBIT-GSP:

The Capacity-building Initiative for Transparency - Global Support Programme (CBIT-GSP) is a global climate transparency programme supporting developing countries in the transition to the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) of the Paris Agreement. The project is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) through CBIT, implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and executed by the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre (UNEP-CCC).