This document discusses confidentiality provisions for reporting greenhouse gas emissions and climate actions under the Paris Agreement. It outlines that parties identify information as confidential and only non-confidential information will be made public. It also notes the need to develop special modalities to handle confidential information during reviews and maintain confidentiality when extracting information to make public. The document shows there are various elements reported by parties for their nationally determined contributions and inventories that could involve confidential business or military data depending on the specific country's reporting. Overall, the key points are that parties self-identify confidential data, confidential information is not made public, and special review modalities need to be established to protect confidentiality.

1. CONFIDENTIALITY
IN REPORTING
Article 6.2 Reporting
(Decision 2/CMA.3)
Maria AlJishi
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2. Clear
provisions for
confidnetiality
Annex
IV. Reporting
24. Information submitted by a Party
pursuant to this chapter that is not
identified by that Party as confidential
(non-confidential information) shall be
made public on the centralized
accounting and reporting platform.
- Identification of
confidentiality driven by
reporting party/parties
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3. Handling of
confidential
elements
The CMA,
7. Further requests the SBSTA to develop
recommendations for guidelines for the
reviews… that include:
(c) Development of modalities for reviewing
information that is confidential;
- Specific modalities for
review
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4. Handling of
confidential
elements
Annex
VI. Recording and tracking
B. Article 6 database
33. The secretariat shall:
(d) Make non-confidential information in the
consistency check publicly available on the
centralized accounting and reporting platform.
C. Centralized accounting and reporting platform
36. The secretariat shall:
(a) Maintain public information on cooperative
approaches and ITMOs by extracting relevant
non-confidential information from the information
submitted by participating Parties pursuant to
chapter IV above (Reporting);
- Specific modalities for
review
- Recognition to make only
non-confidential info.
public
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5. Variety of
Reporing
Elements
Example: Initial Report
18. … shall contain comprehensive
information to:
(b) Provide, NDC description if no BTR has been submitted
(para.64, annex 18/CMA.1);
(d) Quantify the Party’s mitigation information in its NDC in
t CO2 eq, including the sectors, sources, GHGs and time
periods covered by the NDC, the reference level for the
relevant year or period, and the target level for its NDC; or,
where this is not possible, provide the methodology for the
quantification of the NDC in t CO2 eq;
(e) Quantify the NDC, or the portion relevant, in a non-GHG
metric determined by each participating Party, if
applicable;
(f) For a first or first updated NDC consisting of policies
and measures that is not quantified, quantify the emission
level resulting from the policies and measures that are
relevant;
- Info. heavily dependent
on Party NDCs
- Classification of
bilateral/multilateral
agreements
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6. National inventory report of anthropogenic emissions by sources and
removals by sinks of greenhouse gases
- Notation key “C” (confidential) for emissions by sources and removals by sinks of
GHGs where the reporting would involve disclosure of confidential information.
- Reporting on sectors and gases; minimum level of aggregation is needed to protect
confidential business and military information
- TER outlined different treatment is necessary to protect confidentiality
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Modalities, procedures and guidelines for the
transparency framework (Decision 18/CMA.1)
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