Reporting on climate finance under the UNFCCC (Mr. Marenglen Gjonaj, UNFCCC Secretariat)

1. Update on work relating to methodologies
for reporting financial information under
the Convention
4th Meeting of the Joint ENVIRONET-WP-STAT Task Team on Rio Markers,
Environment and Development Finance Statistics
20-21 May, 2015

2. Existing requirements and ongoing work
Com-
pleted
Ongoing
Reporting financial information by Annex I
Parties is defined by:
Biennial reporting guidelines (2/CP.17)
Biennial reporting guidelines common
tabular format (19/CP.18)
National communication reporting
guidelines (4/CP.5)
Methodologies for reporting financial information
by Annex I Parties, as referred to in 2/CP.17,
paragraph 19 (11/CP.20)
Considering ways to increase work on MRV of
support beyond the BA (7/CP.19)
2016 Biennial Assessment and Overview of
Climate Finance Flows (2/CP.17)
2014 Biennial Assessment and Overview of
Climate Finance Flows (2/CP.17)

3. Methodologies related issues under bodies of the Convention
SBSTA
Methodologies for reporting of
financial information
SBI
Revision of national
communication reporting
guidelines
SCF
1. Recommendations by the
SCF on methodologies relating
to MRV of support/climate
finance tracking and reporting
(2014 BA of the SCF)
2. Recommendations on
methodologies for reporting
financial information to COP21
(COP mandated)

4. CTF Table 7: Example 1

5. CTF Table 7(a): Example 2

6. CTF Table 7(b): Example 3

7. Revision of the “Guidelines for the preparation of national communications by Parties
included in Annex I to the Convention, Part II: UNFCCC reporting guidelines on national
communications”
Proposed Approach by Parties
• Streamline the reported information with the information reported in BRs in order to increase
consistency, including the BR CTF tables in the reporting guidelines on NCs.
• Update outdated elements (e.g. years, gases, sectors, reporting tables)
• Enhance the scope and type of information included in NCs to better reflect the reporting
experience gained over the past two decades, as well as to reflect the latest work conducted under the
Convention. Take into account new agreements and revisions of relevant decisions, inter alia, on
revisions of the BR reporting guidelines
Overview of proposed changes: financial resources and transfer of technology
• Include BR CTF tables 7, 8 and 9.
• Add information on capacity building support
• Provide clarification of key terminology
• Add information on definitions and methods used for estimating the financial resources provided
• Add information on challenges in reporting on financial support and technology transfer.

8. Views on methodologies for the reporting of financial information, as referred to in decision
2/CP.17, paragraph 19. (synthesized in a forthcoming technical paper)
• Parties recognize the important role of the Biennial Reports in facilitating transparency.
o Potential to further enhance the overall transparency of information on financial
support provided.
o Harmonized reporting has the potential to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of
deployment and use of support provided.
• Parties have provided views on:
o Improving the coverage of multilateral climate finance flows
o Reporting of mobilized private finance
o Reporting methodology for capacity building and technology support
o Improving reporting by non-Annex I Parties

9. More details on the ongoing work under the Convention
• Revision of the guidelines for the preparation of NCs by Annex I Parties were not completed
SBI41 in Lima. Discussions will continue at SBI42 in June in Bonn.
• As at 30 April 2015, the secretariat has coordinated 34 in-country in-depth technical reviews of
BR1 and 10 centralized reviews of NC6s and BR1s
• As at 30 April 2015, 41 reports of the in-depth review of NC6s and 41 reports on the technical
review of BR1s have been published. 17 Annex I Parties were multilaterally assessed in a
working group session under the SBI at its forty-first session and summary reports have been
published
• A joint in-session technical workshop under the auspices of SBSTA, SBI, and SCF (6 June,
Bonn). Objectives:
o Identify gaps in the methodologies for the reporting of financial information
o Identify options for improvements in the current methodologies for the reporting of financial
information, including concrete actions in the near and longer terms.
• Recommendations by SCF on methodologies for reporting financial information to COP21