The Consultative Group of Experts roll out capacity building initiatives for 2020.
The
Consultative Group of Experts (CGE), an expert group under the Convention and
the Paris Agreement mandated to provide technical support and advice to
developing countries on MRV and transparency has rolled out some of the planned
capacity building initiatives for 2020 despite the COVID-19 crisis.
The CGE planned a number of capacity building initiatives for its
2020 workplan such as regional webinar training sessions on transitioning from
the revised 1996 to 2006 IPCC guidelines for national GHG inventories, regional
webinar trainings on ICTU and NDC progress tracking; training session on
institutional arrangement to support MRV and ETF process. To this
extent the CGE has already conducted webinars on transitioning from the revised
1996 to 2006 IPCC guidelines for national GHG inventories for the Asia-Pacific
region, which was conducted on 22 April 2020. A total of 44 experts attended
the webinar and this presents an example of concrete effort by the CGE to
assist developing countries enhance their technical capacity to prepare for and
implement reporting requirement under the Convention and Paris Agreement.