About the support activity for Tajikistan

Background

Through the Article 13, the Paris Agreement established the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) to regularly measure the progress made by countries to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change. The objective of the new framework is to build mutual trust between countries, raise climate ambition and rigorously monitor public mitigation and adaptation policies. It aims to better track GHG emissions over time, assess the progress made by Parties in meeting their commitments on mitigation and adaptation, and assess collective progress toward the 2°C long-term pathway. 

By the end of 2024, Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs) have to be submitted by all countries. For the most developing countries this presents a significant challenge due to increased reporting frequency, stronger transparency requirements, increased scope of categories and gases to be reported on a mandatory basis, and a substantial increase of data and information associated with different components of MRV that need to be collected and processed. 

The Republic of Tajikistan, being one of the members of the CBIT-GSP regional transparency network for Central Asia and the Caucasus accomplished its fourth National Communication and first BUR under the UNFCCC and has progressed in establishing the institutional arrangements for transparency. Since 2004, the Climate Change and Ozone Layer Centre of the Agency for Hydrometeorology (CC&OLC) is mandated to coordinate and develop regular climate reporting under the UNFCCC. However, the technical capacity of the newcomers/junior colleagues of the CC&OLC requires additional improvement for the ETF and new reporting requirements under the Article 13 of the Paris Agreement. 

Objective

The main objective of the learning session is to inform the junior staff of the Climate Change and Ozone Layer Centre of the Agency for Hydrometeorology (CC&OLC) about the overall concept of the ETF and transparency systems, discuss the progress towards developing the first BTR as well as to determine key gaps and challenges in establishing sound and sustainable institutional arrangements for transparency. 

It is expected that the participants will also discuss the existing interventions on transparency at the national level and assess the options for addressing the key challenges determined above. 

Target Audience 

The learning session is aimed for the staff of the Climate Change and Ozone Layer Centre (CC&OLC), who deal with national GHG Inventory, mitigation and GHG projections, vulnerability and adaptation and the overall coordination process for the climate reporting and transparency in Tajikistan. 

Language and Duration 

The meeting will be held in Russian and lasted up to 2 hours with sufficient timing dedicated to discussion, information exchange and Q&A sessions.