Enhanced Transparency Framework

The common reporting and review system established by Article 13 of the Paris Agreement. It applies to all Parties, with built-in flexibility for those developing countries that need it in the light of their capacities, and it replaced the earlier split arrangements — national communications, biennial reports and biennial update reports — with a single framework delivered mainly through BTRs. Its detailed rules are the modalities, procedures and guidelines (MPGs) adopted by the CMA.

Why it matters in the room

The ETF is the regime’s evidence base. The ambition cycle, the Global Stocktake and every finance discussion depend on comparable reported data, so questions of reporting capacity and support for reporting are never purely technical.