​The Consultative Group of Experts (CGE), mandated to provide technical support and advice to developing countries to improve capacities to implement the existing MRV arrangements under the Convention and the ETF under the Paris Agreement, held its 3^rd Meeting from 18 to 19 February 2020 in Bonn, Germany. To this end, the CGE formulated its Vision, Mission statement and Strategic objectives to guide its work up to 2026. The CGE’s Vision is to comprehensively achieve its mandate of assisting developing country Parties improve their capacities to implement the existing MRV arrangements under the Convention and the ETF under the Paris Agreement in a timely and sustainable manner.  The CGE’s Mission Statement seeks to provide targeted technical support and advice, consistent with its mandate, to developing country Parties that responds to their technical assistance needs to implement, in a timely manner, the existing MRV arrangements under the Convention and the enhanced transparency framework under the Paris Agreement, including putting in place sustainable institutional arrangements and data management systems.