Background

The Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF), established under the Paris Agreement, required all parties to submit their Biennial Transparency Reports (BTR) by the end of 2024. The provision of clear and understandable data and information in the BTR and the NDC plays a crucial role in ensuring transparency under the Enhanced Transparency Frameworks (ETF) and supports achieving the objectives of the Convention and the Paris Agreement.

The BTR requires countries to provide information on national inventory reports (NIRs), progress towards NDCs, policies, and measures, climate change impacts and adaptation, capacity-building needs, and areas of improvement. 

The CBIT-GSP is a global capacity-building project that assessed the support needs for transparency reporting. The assessment results indicated that countries of Anglophone Africa expressed the need to build their capacities and hear from other countries about how they can develop national reports such as National Communications, NDCs, BTR, and NAPs reports. Thus, the countries of Anglophone Africa are invited to participate in a webinar and share experiences. 

Objective

The main objective of the webinar is to share experiences among the Anglophone African countries on specific steps and approaches countries undertook to develop and submit their first BTR by December 2024. Specific objective:

• Exchange experiences will encourage countries that have not yet submitted to have an open discussion and pick strategies that can be used to fast-track the BTR process in their countries.

   

Target Audience and Language

The event aims to gather national coordinators and government officials in charge of the development of transparency reports (NCs and BTRs), experts from the national agencies dealing with climate policy, and experts from specific areas of reporting within the ETF (greenhouse gas inventory, NDC, climate finance, and adaptation and impacts). 

The workshop will be held in English. 

Duration 

The meeting is expected to last up to 2 hours, with sufficient time dedicated to discussion and Q&A sessions.