This document discusses targets and indicators for SDG 13 on climate action where data is currently limited (Tier III). It outlines the adoption and implementation timeline of the Paris Agreement from 2015-2018. Key points include negotiations taking place to develop guidelines to implement the Agreement, its entry into legal force in 2016, and the goal to complete negotiations on guidelines by 2018. The document also provides information on countries that have ratified the Paris Agreement and submitted climate action plans and commitments. It notes transparency requirements being negotiated, including reporting on emissions, climate impacts, and financial support for climate action.

1. Use of proxy indicators to monitor
targets where indicators are currently
Tier III : SDG 13
Seventh Meeting of the IAEG-SDGs
10 – 12 April 2018
Livia Hollins, UNFCCC/UN Climate

2. Paris Agreement: adoption to implementation
December 2015 (Paris):
Paris Agreement adopted, and
the related work programme agreed (to
develop modalities, guidelines,
procedures – MPGs – to implement the
Agreement)
May 2016 (Bonn): launch of
negotiations on modalities, guidelines,
procedures under Paris Agreement
November 2016:
Paris Agreement enters into legal
force (in record time!)
December 2016 (Marrakech):
Agreement to complete the negotiations
on the modalities, procedures and
guidelines, under the Paris Agreement
by Dec.2018
Dec.2018:
modalities, procedures
and guidelines ready
Dec.2015:
Agreement
adopted 2016–2017–2018: negotiating from concepts to texts
Practical implications for data requirements…

4. As of 10 April 2018:
Ten developing country Parties have submitted
their first national adaptation plans (NAPs)
Further information on NAPs and NDCs is available at <unfccc.int>

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Australia and New Zealand
Central Asia and Southern Asia
Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia
Latin America and the Carribean
Northern America and Europe*
Oceania (excl. Australia and New Zealand)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Western Asia and Northern Africa
Parties that have ratified the Paris Agreement,
submitted NDCs, Party to the UNFCCC, April 2018

7. Measures by developing country Parties in the
process to formulate and implement NAPs

8. Thank you
lhollins@unfccc.int

9. Paris Agreement: cycle of contributions

10. Transparency Framework – basis for data needs
• Currently under negotiation: modalities, procedures and guidelines (MPGs) for
the transparency framework for action and support
• Some of the issues being deliberated (not a complete list!):*
- Overarching considerations and guiding principles
- National inventory report on anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals
by sinks of greenhouse gases
- Information necessary to track progress made in implementing and achieving
NDCs under Article 4 of the Paris Agreement
- Information related to climate change impacts and adaptation under Article 7 of
the Paris Agreement, as appropriate
- Information on financial, technology transfer and capacity-building support
provided under Articles 9–11 of the Paris Agreement
- Information on financial, technology transfer and capacity-building support
needed and received under Articles 9–11 of the Paris Agreement
- Technical expert review
- Facilitative, multilateral consideration of progress.
• These issues form a set of “headings and subheadings” for the MPGs; but
- They cannot be considered as final yet (negotiations are ongoing)
- They need to be filled in with substantive content, to be developed yet
* Source: informal notes and conclusions from the last session of the UNFCCC (Bonn, May 2017)