CCXG Global Forum September 2017, BGC Transparency of reporting on mitigation: Issues and options for an enhanced framework by Sara Moarif

1. Climate Change Expert Group www.oecd.org/env/cc/ccxg.htm
Transparency of reporting on
mitigation: Issues and options
for an enhanced framework
Sara Moarif (IEA)
CCXG Global Forum on the Environment and Climate Change
September 2017
Based on “Enhancing mitigation and finance
reporting” (Vallejo, Moarif & Halimanjaya; draft)

2. 2 Climate Change Expert Group
Overview
 Two examples of what is challenging about developing
common reporting guidelines for mitigation
o What does current experience teach us about these
challenges?
o What are some options for addressing these challenges?
 Steps to move forward with developing reporting guidelines

3. 3 Climate Change Expert Group
1. Accommodating different country capacities
and enabling continuous improvement for all
Lessons from current experience
 Parties will report what they can
 Common guidelines = reporting same content
 Guidelines are helpful when they include guidance

4. 4 Climate Change Expert Group
1. Accommodating different country capacities
and enabling continuous improvement for all
Options for balancing flexibility with improvement
 Explicitly include “no backsliding” as principle in guidelines
 Provide maximum amount of guidance as relevant to the
NDCs of all Parties
 Include “improvement plans” to establish realistic reporting
goals and prioritise capacity development

5. 5 Climate Change Expert Group
2. Accommodating diverse NDCs with the goal
of informing the global stocktake
Lessons from current experience
 Vague guidelines did not help with communicating diverse
mitigation actions
 What is difficult to measure and estimate, is difficult to
report clearly and consistently
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6. 6 Climate Change Expert Group
2. Accommodating diverse NDCs with the goal
of informing the global stocktake
Options for balancing diversity with comparability
 Use accounting guidance to provide common set of methods
for assessing progress with diverse NDCs
 Have a basic set of common metrics, definitions, information
 Provide guidance to enable transparency where
comparability not possible
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7. 7 Climate Change Expert Group
Potential ways forward for developing
reporting guidelines
 Work to agree on the specific information Parties would
like from each other, in line with the diversity of NDCs
 Consider what type of guidance and tools would help
Parties report that information
 Provide as much detail and advice as possible (within
guidelines and/or through other processes)
 Acknowledge that not all
Parties, especially
developing country Parties,
will be able to fulfil
reporting guidelines

8. 8 Climate Change Expert Group
Conclusion
 Challenges to developing common reporting guidelines
can technically be addressed
o There are several options to do so
o Parties must find common ground when it comes to
acceptability of options