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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$5,000,000 CAD
- 2017 to 2018: $2,000,000 CAD
- 2016 to 2017: $3,000,000 CAD
Targeted Regions:
Funding Period: 2016 to 2017, 2017 to 2018
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Cross-cutting
Delivery Channel:
Description
As part of Canada’s $2.65 billion climate finance commitment, Canada is providing $5 million over 2016/17 to 2017/18, to the Global Environment Facility, for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT). CBIT was established at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) in order to help developing countries increase their capacity to report transparently their greenhouse gas emissions reductions and their climate efforts, in line with the enhanced transparency requirements laid out in the Paris Agreement. The CBIT focuses especially on strengthening the institutional and technical capacities of developing countries and is established under the Global Environment Facility. So far, ten national projects have been approved in Costa Rica, Kenya, South Africa, Cambodia, Chile, Ghana, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Uganda and Uruguay, as well as a Global Coordination Project led by the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Environment Programme.
Results/Expected Outcomes
While the 10 national projects respond to nationally identified priorities, and are thus specific to each country’s transparency-related capacity-building needs, they all seek to enhance coordination at the national level, improve or further develop national frameworks for Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV), and strengthen the institutional capacity for transparency-related activities. All projects have components related to improving GHG inventories and transparency of mitigation actions. Some projects also include transparency of adaptation actions and of support needed and received.
The Global Coordination Project aims to create a platform to enable coordination, maximize learning opportunities and foster knowledge-sharing to facilitate transparency enhancements for all interested countries. The project will also provide a platform to help coordinate with other existing transparency- related initiatives, such as the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT), the Partnership on Transparency in the Paris Agreement, and the NDC Partnership and work led by the UNFCCC.