In the negotiations for the future climate change regime, the establishment of a measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) structure aiming to secure transparency of the Parties’ reduction goals and reduction activities for greenhouse gas emissions is positioned as one of the major negotiation agendas. There is a common recognition that MRV should be applied not only to mitigation by the Parties, but also to support provided to developing country Parties. MRV of support is also described in the Cancun Agreement.
Development in negotiations for the establishment of a MRV structure has been seen mainly in the area of mitigation and modalities for MRV of support have not been established as of yet. However, in pursuing steady implementation of the Cancun Agreement by the Parties, it is expected that detailed designs for MRV of support will be considered. Therefore, this paper focuses on MRV of support and looks at the elements of funding support, capacity building, and technology development/ transfer, which compose support for developing countries, gives a broad overview of the development of the negotiations while sorting out similar structures from the viewpoint of MRV, and analyzes how the modalities should be.
