Capacity Building Support forCountries on Reporting
Requirements under Article 6Emerging Article 6 Reporting and Registry Infrastructure-Pending, holding,retirement,cancellation,cancellation towards
OMGE and SOPadaptation
Holding account foreach Party and eachpublic or private entity

A6 Technical Expert
Review Team (A6TERT)--

Review initial reportand regular info
Prepare a report andrecomm to Parties
Forward the report toA13TERT

A6.2 InternationalRegistry-

Sec to implement for
Parties that do nothave or do not haveaccess to a registry
Shall be part of theCARP-

Publication of the reportConsist. chk and publication--Secretariat
Check the consistencyof recorded info,
notify Parties any
inconsistencies andmake non
confidential info
public on CARP
Provide info incl
consistency check toA6TERT

Centralized Accounting
and Reporting
Platform (CARP)--

A6 Database (A6DB)
To record and compile
annual/regular info:
Cas, emission balances,info on ITMOs
To support A6TERT
Identify inconsistencies

Online Portal by the Sec

Registry for Cooperative
approaches-Records, including
through unique
identifiers –authorization, firsttransfer, transfer,acquisition, use towards
NDCs, authorization for
Ops and voluntarycancellation

Based on the info stored in each registry

Parties submit annual
info and regular info
(included in astructured summary
Annual info

NIR andother info
Regular info
based onA6.2
guidance

BTR-A6.4 Mechanism
Registry

Transmitted to online portal
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Digital Infrastructure at national level to Meet Reporting
Requirements

Source: World Bank Group. Emissions Trading Registries: Guidance on
Regulation, Development, and Administration. 2016

Reporting Requirements Versus Infrastructure
Required Information
Initial Report

NDC quantification (in tCO2 and non-CO2 metric),
measurement metric for ITMOs, CA process, andproposed cooperative approaches

Supporting Infrastructure Reporting and Frequency
GHG Inventory (for NDCQuantification)

One-time Initial report to thesecretariat before 1st transfer
under any cooperative
No infrastructure needed for approach.
other information
Registry (National, Regional, Annual electronic submission
or International)

Yearly Information Authorization(s), transfers, cancellation, use towards
NDC, or other international purposeson ITMOs
For each cooperative approach, annual information on Registry (National, Regional, Every two years (as part ofBiennial
Biennial Transparency Report)
corresponding adjustments, any updates to information or International)
Transparency
Report (Cooperative submitted for previous years
DMSApproaches)
How each cooperative approach mitigates GHG
emissions, contributes towards implementation of theNDC, etc.
Annual information on changes in emissions and GHG Inventory (change inremovals from sectors and GHG covered by the NDC
GHG emissions)

Biennial
Transparency
Report (GHG, MO,
Quantity of ITMOs first transferred (annual and Registry (Quantities ofand ITMO balances)cumulative), quantity of mitigation outcomes labelledITMOs)

Every two years (as part ofBiennial Transparency Report)World Bank is supporting countries with building needed infrastructure at country level tosupport meeting different requirements under the Paris Agreement, including reporting
Digital Carbon Assets (Tokenization Engine)

Digital MRV(UNFCCC, ISO or IndependentStandard)

Digital Methodology

Program Level MRV(Independent Standards,Sovereign Registries,UNFCCC Registries)+WB registries

Equipment
Sensors
MetersSatellite

Exchange ARegistries

Services Layer
Compliancereporting
Benchmarking

Centralized
Database/optionally toNational MRVSystem

Metadata Layer

Due diligence
checksCertifications
Conflictresolution
Ratings

Exchange X

Forecasting

Facility Level MRV
verification of units

Reporting formarkets, UNFCCC
National Inventory

Digital work-flow

project preparation from document development, approval, validation to registration in applicable standards

Into the jungle of carbon market infrastructure: Market innovation is unprecedented and howeach platform interact and feed into each other / utilize the data to bring more transparency andliquidity is a complex task

Country levelregistries

Metadata LayerWB support to countries
Country program• 17 countries under thePartnership for MarketImplementation (PMI) initiative• All PMI countries have work
components on Article 6operationalization•••••

Gaps assessment
Policy framework development
Infrastructure development
Piloting
Capacity building

Regional program• Sub Saharan Africa initiative for
CB and TA around A6 anddomestic CP (WAPP, SAPP,Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda,Nigeria)• Pacific Islands program (PNG,Fiji)

Just-in-time support
BrazilBosniaMongolia

Philippines

EcuadorPeru