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Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) on Climate Change

Addressing reporting requirements

Addressing reporting requirements

How to address reporting requirements

The Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) requires countries to track and report on:

  • Greenhouse gas emissions and removals
  • Progress made in implementing Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)
  • Climate change impacts and adaptation
  • Support they have provided, received or require to meet their climate commitments
By December 2024, and for every two years thereafter, signatory countries will need to submit this information to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as a Biennial Transparency Report (BTR).  
Helping countries meet their ETF reporting requirements

FAO assists countries in meeting their ETF reporting requirements by providing technical support, building capacity, raising awareness of the benefits of transparency, and facilitating dialogue and cooperation among various actors involved in transparency work.  

Some specific ways in which FAO works with countries include: 

  • Providing technical support and mentoring to strengthen monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) systems, with a focus on greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories
  • Setting up monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems for tracking adaptation actions
  • Offering tools and data to address ETF reporting requirements
  • Facilitating dialogues to create better institutional arrangements for collecting data
  • Facilitating discussion with non-state actors to increase the availability of data and information
  • Working with universities to train transparency experts and enhance country capacity for reporting. 

Technical support is delivered by: 

How to request technical support

FAO is now accepting applications from potential pilot countries wishing to receive technical support in addressing the reporting requirements of the ETF. For more information, please contact us at: [email protected].

This support is made possible through the GEF-funded Global Capacity Building Towards Enhanced Transparency (CBIT-AFOLU+) project.

Note: only national public institutions directly responsible for ETF reporting can apply.