Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions: Understanding the MRV framework for developing Countries
From the perspectives of both national and international funders, a robust system of measuring, reporting and verifying is essential for effective monitoring of NAMA implementation, as well as in assessing its impact in terms of greenhouse gas emissions reductions, cost effectiveness and sustainable development benefits. Measuring, reporting and verifying enable regular evaluation of a country’s progress toward achieving the objectives of the NAMA on the basis of predefined indicators and can assist countries in setting indicators to monitor transformational change in the direction of low GHG growth pathways.
The paper is divided into four main sections. The first section discusses the context of MRV of developing-country mitigation actions and briefly summarizes the key elements of the MRV under the UNFCCC. The second section explains the domestic MRV system that developing countries are expected to develop for MRV of NAMAs. This section focuses on the institutional, procedural and guidance elements of a domestic MRV system. The section also briefly discusses the MRV of internationally supported actions. The third section focusses on explaining what is to be measured in context of NAMAs, the role of NAMA developer in MRV of NAMA, the information to be included in a NAMA measurement plan and reporting requirements. The section also describes different types of verification system and highlights the linkage between the scope and objective of the MRV system and verification. The fourth section discusses the reporting of MRV information on NAMA implementation in BURs and discusses the format for aggregated presentation of information on NAMAs.