Azerbaijan Biennial Transparency Report. BTR1. Update
Category: UNFCCC
Document Type: Biennial Transparency Report
Role: Main
Republic of Azerbaijan's First Biennial Transparency Report to UNFCCC, November 2024
This document is the First Biennial Transparency Report (BTR1) submitted by the Republic of Azerbaijan to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in November 2024. The purpose of the report is to fulfill Azerbaijan's reporting obligations under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement's Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF). The scope of the report includes a detailed National Inventory Report covering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals, an overview of national circumstances, institutional arrangements for inventory preparation, summary of emission trends, analysis of source and sink categories, information on indirect GHGs and precursor gases, key category analysis, and a description of improvements made in the reporting process. Key obligations involve transparently reporting national GHG inventories and providing information on national circumstances relevant to climate change and inventory preparation. While specific affected sectors are not detailed in the provided table of contents, the National Inventory Report structure implies coverage of standard IPCC sectors such as Energy, Industrial Processes and Product Use (IPPU), Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU), and Waste, as these are the sources and sinks typically included in national GHG inventories. The report's submission date of November 2024 serves as the key compliance date for this reporting cycle under the biennial reporting requirements of the ETF. The overarching regulatory frameworks are the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement, which mandate the submission of such transparency reports.
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THE FIRST BIENNIAL TRANSPARENCY REPORT OF THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN TO THE UN FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE NOVEMBER 2024 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction....................................................................................................................................................................................................15 Executive Summary..................................................................................................................................................................................17 Chapter I. National Inventory Report.........................................................................................................................................20 Overview...........................................................................................................................................................................................................21 ES.1. Background information on GHG inventories and climate change.....................................................21 ES.2. Summary of trends related to national emissions and removals..........................................................22 ES.3. Overview of source and sink category emission estimates and trends...........................................24 ES.4. Other information (e.g. indirect GHGs, precursor gases).............................................................................25 ES.5 Key category analysis.................................................................................................................................................................25 ES.6. Improvements introduced...................................................................................................................................................25 1. National circumstances, institutional arrangements and cross-cutting information...................26 1.1. Background information on GHG inventories and climate change.........................................................26 1.1.1. Background information about climate change...................................................................................................26 1.1.2. Climate change in national context ...............................................................................................................................27 1.1.3. General information on conducting a GHG emissions inventory............................................................27 1.2. A description of national circumstances and institutional arrangements.........................................28 1.2.1. Geographic and climate profile..........................................................................................................................................28 1.2.2. Population and Economic Profile....................................................................................................................................29 1.2.3.Development priorities and goals.....................................................................................................................................31 1.2.4.Key priorities for reducing the effects of climate change..............................................................................31 1.2.5. Other issues.......................................................................................................................................................................................32 1.2.6. National GHG inventory and responsible organizations. ..............................................................................32 1.2.7. MRV system for national GHG inventory....................................................................................................................33 1.2.8. Inventory preparation process...........................................................................................................................................35 1.2.9. Archiving of information.........................................................................................................................................................36 1.3. Brief general description of methodologies (including tiers used) and data sources used..........................................................................................................................................................................37 1.4. Brief description of key categories......................................................................................................................................38 1.5. Brief general description of QA/QC plan and implementation...................................................................44 1.6. General uncertainty assessment..........................................................................................................................................46 1.6.1 Qualitative assessment of uncertainty by inventory sectors........................................................................46 1.6.1.1 Energy....................................................................................................................................................................................................46 1.6.1.2 IPPU........................................................................................................................................................................................................47 1.6.1.3 AFOLU...................................................................................................................................................................................................48 1.6.1.4 Waste.....................................................................................................................................................................................................48 1.7. General assessment of completeness...............................................................................................................................49 1.8. Metrics........................................................................................................................................................................................................53
Tags: Climate Change, Compliance, Disclosure, Ghg, Governance, Methodology, Mitigation, Mrv, National Energy And Climate Plans, Paris Agreement, Regulation, Report, Reporting, Unfccc, Update