Ruta Bubniene, Programme officer, Reporting and Review unit,

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Overview of the synthesis report on submissions
from Parties on the views on the common tabular
format

• SBSTA Workshop on common reporting format for the
  UNFCCC biennial reporting guidelines for
  developed country Parties
• Bonn, Germany, 11-12 October, 2012

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Background

• Mandate SBSTA 36
• Invited Parties to submit, their views by 13
  August on the common tabular format
• Requested secretariat
• to compile the submissions from Parties into a
  miscellaneous document (FCCC/SBSTA/2012/MISC.11,
  Add.1, Add.2)
• to prepare a synthesis report of Parties
  submissions (FCCC/SBSTA/2012/INF.4)
• to organize a workshop in October 2012 (11-12
  October, Bonn).

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Background

• Views were provided by 7 Parties

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Background

• Matters addressed in Parties submissions
• Information on GHG emissions and trends
• Quantified economy-wide emission reduction
  target
• Progress in achieving the quantified economy-wide
  emission reduction target
• Projections of GHG
• Provision of financial, technological and
  capacity-building support to developing country
  Parties.

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Approach

• Focus of the synthesis report
• Broad principles for the development of a CTF
• Specific Parties proposals under separate
  paragraphs of the reporting guidelines
• Summary of Parties views by
• highlighting the common trends
• noting areas where these views differ
• identifying possible options for a CTF.
• The options for CTF share many common elements
  and could be easily combined.

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Approach

• Principles for development of a common tabular
  format as emphasized in Parties submission
• Consistency with the biennial reporting
  guidelines
• Consistency, where appropriate, with the UNFCCC
  reporting guidelines on national communications
• The use the information already reported in the
  annual GHG inventories and national
  communications
• Enhanced transparency compared with the current
  reporting requirements
• Clarity and simplicity in the structure of the
  reporting the CTF information 

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GHG emissions and trends

• Common views on
• The use of GHG inventories as a basis
• Coverage of gasses and sectors
• Different views on
• Timeframe for summary of GHG emissions.

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GHG emissions and trends
Common elements
BR GLS para 2, SP table 1
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Quantified economy-wide emission reduction
targets

• Common views on inclusion of information on
• Base year
• Gases covered
• Sectors covered
• Accounting approach to emissions/removals from
  LULUCF
• The use of international market-based mechanisms.
  
• Different views on
• The inclusion of GWP
• The level of detail
• A few specific elements to be included.

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Quantified economy-wide emission reduction
targets
Common elements
BR GLS para 5, SR table 2
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Progress mitigation actions

• Common views on
• Using the UNFCCC national communication reporting
  guidelines (table 1. Summary of policies and
  measures by sector)
• Name of policy and measure
• Objective and / or activity affected
• GHG effected
• Type of instrument
• Status of policy and measure
• Implementing entity or entities
• Estimate of mitigation impact by gas.
• Different views on
• Flexibility for the timeline to report the
  impacts of policies and measures
• Level of disaggregation of mitigation actions
• Estimate of progress in implementation.

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Progress mitigation actions
Common elements
BR GLS para 6, SR table 3
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Progress emission reductions

• Common views
• Emissions reductions for the base year
• total GHG emissions, excluding emissions and
  removals from the LULUCF sector
• emissions and/or removals from the LULUCF sector
  based on the accounting approach applied taking
  into consideration any relevant decisions of the
  COP and the activities and/or lands that will be
  accounted for
• total GHG emissions, including emissions and
  removals from the LULUCF sector.
• Emissions reductions for each reported year
  information on the use of units from market-based
  mechanisms.
• Different views on
• The level of detail on the units from
  market-based mechanisms
• The level of detail on the reporting of the GHG
  emissions/removals from LULUCF sector
• The years to be reported.

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Progress emission reductions
Common elements
BR GLS para 9 10, SR table 4
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Projections variables and assumptions

• Common views on reporting
• Similarly to table 2 of the National
  communication guidelines
• Variables (i.e. GDP growth, world oil prices)
• Historic and projected in 5 year intervals.
• Single option based on National communication
  guidelines with updated timeline for historic
  (1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2010, 2011) and
  projected emissions (2015, 2020, 2025, 2030).
• Some Parties highlighted possibility to select
  variables relevant to the modelling tools used.

BR GLS para 11, SR table 5
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Projections scenarios

• Common views on reporting
• With measures scenario
• The latest reported year
• Projected years 2020, 2030
• Disaggregation by sector (pre-defined/not
  pre-defined).
• Different views on
• the number of the scenarios to be reported on a
  mandatory basis (only with measures or also
  without measures and with additional
  measures)
• the time frame for GHG projections
• whether disaggregation by gas should be reported
  .

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Projections scenarios
Common elements
BR GLS para 11, SR table 6
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Provision of support finance

• Common views on
• Currency USD/international currency
• Reported years the two previous calendar or
  financial years without overlap with the previous
  reporting period
• Status of financial contributions and/or
  accounting for the financial information
  provided provided, committed or pledged
• Institutions/channels
• The financial mechanism of the Convention and
  funds under the Convention and the Kyoto
  Protocol
• Other multilateral climate change funds
• Multilateral financial institutions, including
  regional development banks,
• Specialized United Nations bodies,
• Contributions through bilateral, regional and
  other channels
• Total.

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Provision of support finance

• Different views on
• Whether to include a description of new and
  additional financial resources
• Whether to report a summary of bilateral
  financial support in a table for the multilateral
  support
• How to disaggregate the support (to adaptation
  and mitigation, or to adaptation, mitigation and
  other support)

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Provision of financial support multilateral
Common elements
BR GLS para 17, 18, SR table 7
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Provision of financial support bilateral
Common elements
BR GLS para 17, 18, SR table 8
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Provision of technology development and
transfer support

• Common views on reporting of
• Recipient country/region
• Targeted area (mitigation/adaptation)
• Sector
• Contribution in USD/international currency
• The source of funding (private/public).
• Different views on
• The level of detail of the description to be
  provided
• the status (implemented, adopted or planned)
• summary of actions and the co-financing
  arrangements.

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Provision of technology development and
transfer support
Common elements
BR GLS para 22, SR table 9
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Provision of capacity building support

• Common views on the need to report description
  of capacity building support.
• Different views on
• The level of detail of the description to be
  provided
• the target area (mitigation, adaptation and
  technology development and transfer)
• the programmes status (implemented, adopted or
  planned)
• total programme/project contribution
  USD/international currency,
• a description of the action, the co-financing
  arrangements, connections to technology
  development and transfer, etc.

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Provision of capacity building support
Common elements
BR GLS para 23, SR table 10
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