Tunis: Tunisia's first Biennial Transparency Report (BTR), being drafted in line with the Paris Agreement's requirements, will be finalised before the end of 2024 and submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Environment Minister Leila Chikhaoui said Monday in Tunis. Since the establishment of the UNFCCC in 1992, world nations have been meeting at the Conference of the Parties (COP) to launch a process to prevent the negative effects of climate change. To ensure the success of the COPs, each of the parties is expected to share a comprehensive report on their greenhouse gas emissions, the mitigation actions undertaken to reduce these emissions, and the measures taken to better adapt to the adverse effects of climate change. This is done through national communications and biennial updates, which as from 2024 will become biennial transparency reports. "The transparency framework established under Article 13 of the Paris Agreement is a key tool for building mutual trust between countries, raising climate ambition and rigorously monitoring public mitigation and adaptation policies," Chikhaoui said at a workshop on "Strengthening climate governance in Tunisia: Drafting first Bennial Tansparency Report (BTR) in line with the requirements of the Paris Agreement" organised Monday in Tunis. "As a Party to the UNFCCC, Tunisia has already come a long way towards aligning its national climate policy with its international commitments, notably through the preparation and submission of documents," she added. "These documents inlcude the national inventory of greenhouse gas emissions in the period running from 1990 to 2021 (submitted in January 2023), four national communications, three biennial reports (December 2014, December 2016 and December 2022), Tunisia's initial Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) (2015) updated in 2021, the action plan for implementing the updated NDC (2022), the national strategy for carbon-neutral and climate-resilient development by 2050 and the natio nal transparency system (adaptation platform in 2021 and mitigation platform in 2022)". Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse