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The NDC Support Cluster of the International Climate Initiative introduces its flexible advisory service for developing countries, the NDC Helpdesk. The Helpdesk provides easy to access, short-term support to deal with a number of challenges around NDC implementation in developing countries.

Transport accounts for 23% of Vietnam’s total energy-based emissions and is highlighted as a focus area in the country’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC). As successful implementation of transport climate strategies rests upon the availability of comprehensive data and the application of sound assessment methods for emission reduction potentials, the Vietnamese Ministry of Transport is currently working on developing these.

Many government representatives and climate experts consider the transparency framework to be the backbone of the Paris Agreement. In other words, they see it as the central mechanism for ramping up the ambition of the Nationally Determined Contributions and thus ultimately achieving the Agreement’s temperature target. However, the details of how the mechanism will work are still unclear: While the climate negotiators were meeting in Bonn for talks to work out the details of the modalities, procedures and guidelines of the enhanced transparency framework (ETF), governments worldwide are already thinking about how they can prepare for the Paris Agreement’s ETF and build on existing processes.

The Partnership is sponsoring five participants in the Climate Action and Support Transparency Training (CASTT) programme on greenhouse gases of the Greenhouse Gas Inventory & Research Center of Korea (GIR) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change secretariat.