National Training Workshop on Measurement, Reporting and Verification
(MRV) System for GHG Inventory and M&E Adaptation Tracking System held
Lahore (Muhammad Yasir) The climate change adaptation is a critical concern for developing countries and in particular for Pakistan owing to the fragility of its
ecosystems and its vulnerability to the impacts of climate change,
said Naheed Shah Durrani, Secretary Ministry of Climate Change while
addressing two-day workshop on launch of National Measurement,
Reporting and Verification (MRV) System for GHG Inventory and M&E
Adaptation Tracking System (initially for agriculture) in Islamabad
today.
She said that building resilience to climate change is a key focus of
National Climate Change Policy of Govt of Pakistan and the government
will ensure its cooperation with national and local agencies.
The Ministry of Climate Change has developed a Policy Framework to
showcase Government of Pakistan commitment to the world, she further
added.
Pakistan despite being the 5th largest population in the world and a
small contributor to global GHG emissions (less than 1%) is committed
to reduce its GHG emissions. The national GHG inventory project aims
at developing a framework for compiling GHG inventories, data
collection, data sharing, data reporting and institutional
arrangements, according to the UNFCCC guidelines and Paris Agreement.
The two-day workshop and training has been organized by Global Change
Impact Studies Centre (GCISC), and CITEPA, with support from GIZ
Pakistan and NDC Partnership.
Mr. Arif Goheer (Head of Agriculture and Coordinator -GCISC) said that
as per Paris Agreement, all countries are required to produce
reliable, transparent and comprehensive information on GHG emissions,
climate actions and support under the Enhanced Transparency Framework.
He explained that the new international adopted framework will enable
the implementation of mitigation, adaptation and support actions as
well as their monitoring over time. This monitoring will be reported
on a regular basis as part of the BTR (Biennial Transparency Report)
which will replace the BUR (Biennial Updated report) by 2025.
In this context, the inventory of GHG emissions as well as the action
monitoring indicators are essential for the monitoring and confidence
of the international community. In this context the national GHG
inventory project which aims at developing a framework for compiling
the GHG inventories on regular basis is carried out at GCISC. He
further explained the importance of developing the adaptation tracking
mechanism, which will not only aid in the national climate change
adaptation planning process but also will support in preparing the
Adaptation Communication (ADCOM) for UNFCCC.
The participants also discussed the recently developed IT platform for
GHG Mitigation, which is functional and is housed at GCISC. The IT
platform has been developed with cooperation from CITEPA and GIZ. The
aim of the platform is to track and manage climate change sectoral
data. This has been developed under the Enhanced Transparency
Framework, under the Paris Agreement, where all countries are required
to produce reliable, transparent and comprehensive information on GHG
emissions.
The IT system will enable Pakistan to track climate change actions,
for transparent reporting for better coordination and communication
with local and national agencies said by Mr. Irfan Tariq, DG, MOCC.
Mr. Baptiste Charte, Climate change coordinator of GIZ-Pakistan said
that developed MRV framework will not only facilitate in international
reporting but also will ensure the international financial support to
Pakistan on climate change actions.
The purpose of day-one of training was to introduce and launch the
Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) System for GHG
inventories and to get inputs from the key stakeholders for the
development of M& E System for Adaptation Tracking in the Agriculture
Sector.
The importance of climate change adaptation, stating that adaptation
is a critical concern for developing countries and in particular for
Pakistan owing to the fragility of its ecosystems and its
vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. She said that building
resilience to climate change is a key focus of national Climate Change
Policy of Govt of Pakistan and the government will ensure its
cooperation with national and local agencies.
Naheed Shah Durrani, Secretary Ministry of Climate Change thanked GIZ,
Citepa and GSCIC for helping the government and ministry of climate
change in making Pakistan more responsive and more robust in
fulfilling UNFCCC and Paris Agreement.
