MEASUREMENT, REPORTING AND VERIFICATION

This handbook is aimed at a non-negotiator audience,
including climate change practitioners on the ground.
It provides an overview of the full package of decisions
adopted in the international negotiations concerning
measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) provisions for developing countries under the Convention,
including measurement and reporting through national
communications and biennial update reports (BURs); procedures for international consultation and analysis (ICA);
and guidelines for domestic MRV frameworks, including
those for domestically supported nationally appropriate
mitigation actions (NAMAs) and activities relating to
reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks
in developing countries (REDD-plus)