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The Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC) and the Regional Environment Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) have hold the workshop Fulfilling monitoring and reporting requirements under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol on 9-10 October 2006 in Budapest, Hungary.

The objective of the workshop was to assist the invited Parties in their efforts to fulfill their respective monitoring and reporting requirements under the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol. The workshop provided a forum where the monitoring and reporting requirements have been discussed, problems of implementation by Parties identified and the solutions found. The workshop focused on compliance with Kyoto Protocol monitoring and reporting requirements by EIT countries as well as non-Annex I monitoring and reporting issues. Parties’ monitoring and reporting capacity building needs and ways to meet these needs were identified and discussed. The proceedings from the workshop were conveyed to the international climate change community. The attached agenda shows the range of issues which were covered by the workshop. The funding for this workshop was kindly provided by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Japan Special Fund (JSF).

The topics addressed in the workshop included:

  • Monitoring and reporting requirements under the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol
  • Initial review, annual review and compliance procedures
  • Eligibility requirements
  • Assigned amounts
  • New reference manual on reporting and review
  • Base year issues
  • Greenhouse gas inventories: examining issues in each inventory sector
  • Party case-studies

The participants invited to this workshop were those government officials with responsibility for meeting the monitoring and reporting requirements of the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol from Annex I EIT countries, non-Annex I South-East European countries and Turkey. Representatives of international organizations and other experts also participated.

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