Pacific Islands Regional MRV Network 1st Training and Peer Review Workshop

Description:

 The Pacific Islands Regional MRV Network 1st training and peer review workshop was held from October 19 – 22 November 2019 in Sydney, Australia. This training workshop was cohosted by UN Environment and UNFCCC secretariat and funded by Global Support Programme (GSP). A total of 13 participants drawn from Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Cook Islands, Nauru, Palau, Niue, and Marshall Islands were present.  
Selection of the participants was done through the National BUR/NC project Coordinators who nominated two (2) participants (a national project coordinator and Mitigation/ GHG Inventory expert) based on their active role in the day to day management of NC/BUR project(s) as well as their participation in national climate reporting processes under the UNFCCC. The agenda of the training and peer review workshop focused on the following main objectives: 

• Sharing of good lessons and challenges on national NC/BUR project implementation and national MRV institutional arrangements;
• Training on Enhanced Reporting Framework of the Paris Agreement Modalities, Procedures and Guidelines (MPGs);
• Presentation and demonstration on IPCC 2006 Software;
• Identifying priority areas for capacity building in the Pacific Islands region and developing training plans;
• Peer review of national reports of selected countries (Biannual Update Reports, BURs).

This workshop is a follow-up to the first workshop held in Bangkok, Thailand during which Pacific Islands Regional MRV Network was formed