Type of tool: excel-based

This tool aims to guide developing countries in planning towards the preparation of their first Biennial Transparency Report (BTR) and participation in the Technical Expert Review (TER). It facilitates the long-term planning and the necessary institutional arrangements that countries should have in place to guarantee the sustainable implementation of this report. The guidance provided is complemented by a series of questions that allow users to understand their current reporting status and generate an indicative country-driven roadmap to meet the BTR deadline in December 2024.

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Type of tool: excel-based

This excel-based package helps GHG inventory compilers manage the information related to the activity data (AD) and parameters in the agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU); energy; industrial processes and product use (IPPU); and waste sectors. Each excel file contains a comprehensive list of AD and parameters that must be collected to estimate all categories within these sectors.

This tool must be used in conjunction with the 2006 IPCC Guidelines that provides more explanations on the information needed.

This tool is a revised version of the institutional arrangement template which is part of the U.S. EPA Toolkit for Building National GHG Inventory Systems. This version addresses the transparency requirements – taking the peculiarities of the agriculture and land use sectors into account.

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Type of tool: E-learning courses

Type of tool: excel-based

Based on Collect Earth software outputs, this tool allows users to develop the necessary information for land representation (e.g. land area time series, land-use matrices) to be used for estimating GHG emissions and removals from the LULUCF sector.

*This tool is under development.

Type of tool: Guidelines (pdf)

This tool provides guidance on how to establish and operate a national monitoring system to perform the Enhanced transparency framework process for measurement, reporting and verifying (MRV) information on mitigation actions in the AFOLU sector.

Estimated delivery date: 2022

Type of tool: Excel-based model

The NDC Tracking Tool supports countries in tracking annual progress made in implementing and achieving their NDCs in the AFOLU sector. It does this by comparing:

• planned versus implemented mitigation actions; and
• expected or achieved GHG reductions from mitigation actions against sectorial and or national baselines and target scenarios.

The NDC Tracking Tool provides three type of results:

1. projected emissions scenarios based on the impacts of implemented key policies and actions compared to a business-as-usual (BAU) scenario;
2. the share of total emission reductions achieved out of the emission reductions target in the NDCs – this makes it possible to identify existing gaps in NDC implementation; and
3.  the impact of potential emission reductions from additional mitigation actions not included in the NDC against the BAU scenarios – this provides an opportunity to enhance NDC ambitions.

*This tool is under development.

Type of tool: Searchable datasets and maps

The NDC-AFOLU Navigator is an online, open-data source which allows users to quickly access, analyze and visualize information related to agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) that countries put forward in their nationally determined contributions (NDCs). The tool is designed around four main pillars and sector-specific components: mitigation, adaptation, planning processes and support needs.

Estimated delivery date: end of 2021

Type of tool: Excel-based model

The Nationally Determined Contribution Expert Tool (NEXT) is a greenhouse gas accounting tool that supports annual environmental impact assessments for the agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector.

It provides a 30-year time-series of annual and cumulated estimates of carbon removal and greenhouse gas emissions reductions from climate actions made by Parties to the Paris Agreement. It also supports the tracking of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) as required by the modalities procedures and guidelines (MPGs).

Type of tool: Methodological framework (pdf)

The FAO Damage and Loss Assessment methodology allows users to identify, analyze and evaluate the impact of disasters on agriculture, including crops, livestock, aquaculture, fisheries and forestry. It can inform risk-related policy decision-making and planning.

Type of tool: Training materials

The training package presents a seven-step approach that leads to the development of an M&E framework and system for reporting on climate change adaptation in the agriculture sectors. The package will soon be available in French and Spanish.  

Type of tool: Modelling package using WEB-GIS technology; Policy making tool

MOSAICC is an integrated package of models which allows users to assess the impact of climate change on agriculture at the national level. It helps policymakers define adaptation strategies, programmes and investments.

Type of tool: Survey

SHARP is a tool for assessing household resilience based on interviews with smallholders across the entire farm system. It captures the climate change-related concerns and interests of farmers, pastoralists and agro-pastoralists; and helps ensure they are included in the Enhanced Transparency Framework.

Type of tool: Database

FAOSTAT - FAO's main statistical emissions database - has been significantly redesigned, with the aim to provide ever greater support to users worldwide.  

The new product consists of one summary domain, which consolidates agriculture and land use emissions, and 12 topical sub-domains. A number of aggregates allow the user to select IPCC relevant categories (Agriculture, LULUCF, AFOLU) as well as FAO relevant ones (Farm gate, Agricultural Land).

Most importantly, this new version contains and makes available for download also country emissions and activity data submitted to the UNFCCC, for comparison. These will become visible in the ‘’visualization’ area of the domain in mid-July. In the meantime, comparisons between FAO and UNFCCC data can be visualized using the ‘COMPARE’ function in FAOSTAT, which is found on the top FAOSTAT menu.

Type of tool: Database

The Global Forest Resources Assessments (FRA) are produced every five years to provide a consistent approach to describing the world’s forests and how they are changing. The Assessments are based on two primary sources of data: country reports prepared by national correspondents; and remote sensing conducted by FAO together with national focal points and regional partners.