This document discusses facilitating improved reporting by parties on climate finance support received and needed under the Paris Agreement. It notes the differences between reporting on past support received versus estimated future support needed. Current reporting is patchy and varies between parties. The document proposes parties understand their starting points and capacities to report different types of information. It suggests parties identify specific priorities to gradually improve reporting in line with guidance, such as tracking sub-national finance flows or assessing needs to implement climate policies. The overall aim is to enhance transparency and understanding of support through incremental reporting improvements.

1. Climate Change Expert Group www.oecd.org/env/cc/ccxg.htm
Facilitating reporting on support
needed and received
Breakout Group 4
Based on: Ellis et al (2018), Operationalising flexibility and facilitating
improved reporting under the Paris Agreement (Draft)
CCXG Global Forum on the Environment and Climate Change
8-9 October 2018

2. 2 Climate Change Expert Group
Outline
 Differences between support received and support
needed
 Current reporting
 Approach to facilitating reporting that accommodates
diversity of Parties
o Knowing what to report based on
 Understanding starting points
 Guidance on what information should be reported
o Identifying and prioritising reporting improvements
 MPGs, and potentially other processes, to facilitate this

3. 3 Climate Change Expert Group
Reporting on support needed vs. received
Support received
• Looking back at what has
already happened – can be
known
• Requires financial tracking
system
• Generally refers to
international public financial
support
Support needed
• Looking forward at anticipated
action – can only be
estimated
• Requires understanding of
objectives + translation of
objectives into financial terms
• Generally an overall amount,
sources unknown (domestic,
international, public, private,
etc.)

4. 4 Climate Change Expert Group
Current reporting of support received and
needed
 Information requested in general way in both NCs and BURs
 Reporting patchy, limited clarity, significant variation
o Coverage (which flows, activities)
o Definitions (what is included and counted)
o Methods (tracking system based on domestic budgets,
gathering information from donors)
o Level of detail (time periods, activities, flows)
o Clarity (limited explanation of how figures derived)

5. 5 Climate Change Expert Group
Understanding starting points: “what can I
report?”
 What information is available?
 Where does it comes from?
 Do we understand what it means?
 Can we access, gather this information?
Support
received
A country may have range of information:
From detailed… ..to moderate… ..to absent
For what E.g. in power and waste
sectors
E.g. in industry and agriculture E.g. in transport and
forestry
Financial flow E.g. on grants E.g. on concessional loans E.g. on mobilised
private finance
Time period E.g. annual for power
sector
E.g. over five years for other
sectors
Source E.g. int’l public finance
from Annex I countries
E.g. int’l public finance from
other countries
Recipient E.g. national gov E.g. nat’l development bank E.g. subnat’l govs
and NGOs

6. 6 Climate Change Expert Group
Reporting may vary across information
categories
 Assessment of starting point likely to give nuanced picture of
what to report across different information areas
Support needed
Where support
needed
Adapt. only Mostly adapt. = Mit. & adapt.
1-2 key sectors Most NDC sectors All NDC sectors
Specificity of
estimate
Qual. description of
where finance needed
Quant. of overall
financial costs
Quant. by action;
int’l share
Qual. description of
CB needs
List specific CB
needs
CB needs specific
to each action
Qual. description of
tech needs
List specific tech
needs
TNA and action
plan
Time period Varied, in line with
planning documents
Covers NDC time
period
Years until next
report
Completeness of reporting

7. 7 Climate Change Expert Group
Reporting need not vary for information
that improves understanding
 No matter different starting points, some information can
and should be transparently reported:
o Domestic arrangements and methods, for tracking
support received, estimated support needs
o What data is available
o Explanation of terminology for type of financial flow
o Status of financial flow
o Explanation of choices regarding what is included and
what is not (e.g. type of flow, sectors)

8. 8 Climate Change Expert Group
Identifying where to improve reporting
 Assessing “what do I want to be able to report”
 Guided by MPGs on what Parties should report, or are
encouraged to report
 Reporting team to ask:
o What information is not currently available but is important
to monitor/gather
o What is needed to begin monitoring this information
o What is needed to be able to access and gather available
information
o What is needed to understand information provided by
third Parties

9. 9 Climate Change Expert Group
Towards better reporting: prioritising
improvements
 Focusing efforts on specific actions to improve reporting
in line with MPGs and country priorities
Information What to improve Possible ways to improve
Coverage of where
support received
Tracking of finance received
at the sub-national level
Agreements between national
and sub-national governments;
building capacity within sub-
national governments
Time period Ability to know flows in a
given year
Cross-ministry body to track
spending of flows across
government using financial year
NDC implementation
needs
Understand financial
implications of five key
policies to implement NDCs
Tasking technical bodies to
conduct modelling and
assessment, w/ more personnel
and new modelling tool

10. 10 Climate Change Expert Group
To sum up
 Reporting may be facilitated if Parties can
o Understand what information they can report
o Know where they wish to improve reporting and how
o Communicate transparently about their starting points
and what they wish to improve
MPGs play an essential role

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Thank you
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