The Paris Agreement’s Enhanced Transparency Framework: The critical role of non-Party stakeholder data to effectively track progress

The Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) is a central component of the Paris Agreement that specifies how Parties to the Agreement – governments – should report their progress in mitigating and adapting to climate change.

This document analyzes the importance of non-Party stakeholder data and evidence in the ETF, discusses including non-Party stakeholder data in Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs), provides Tools supporting NPS data collection for BTRs, and offers recommendations for next steps.