{"id":30199,"date":"2025-02-19T05:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T00:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30199"},"modified":"2025-04-10T08:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T03:18:10","slug":"biennial-transparency-report-btr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/biennial-transparency-report-btr\/","title":{"rendered":"Biennial Transparency Report (BTR)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Biennial Transparency Report Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>India is in the final stages of preparing its first ever Biennial Transparency Report (BTR), part of its commitment as a signatory to the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.<\/p>\n<h2>About Biennial Transparency Report<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The BTR is a report prepared and <strong>submitted by Parties to the Paris Agreement under <\/strong>the <strong>Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)<\/strong> that captures information on their <strong>progress in implementing <\/strong>the different aspects of<strong> the Agreement.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The different aspects are covered in the five separate chapters of the BTR, some of which are mandatory and some of which are optional.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Different chapters and components of the BTR:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>National Inventory Report of GHG Emissions: All Parties &#8211; Mandatory<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Progress made in implementing and achieving the NDC: All Parties &#8211; Mandatory<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate change impacts and adaptation: <\/strong>All Parties &#8211; Optional<\/li>\n<li><strong>Financial, technology transfer, and capacity building support provided:\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Developed country Parties &#8211; Mandatory<\/li>\n<li>Other Parties that provide support &#8211; Optional<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Financial, technology transfer, and capacity-building support needed and received:<\/strong> Developing country Parties &#8211; Optional<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>All Parties to the Paris Agreement,<strong> except for small island developing states (SIDS) and <\/strong>the<strong> least developed countries (LDCs), <\/strong>are required to provide country-specific information on the implementation of the Paris Agreement in the form of <strong>BTR every two years.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Recognizing the capacity constraints faced by SIDS and LDCs, and the need to provide flexibility in light of their national circumstances, <strong>SIDS and LDCs may submit BTRs at their discretion.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>As the reporting instrument of the Paris Agreement, BTRs <strong>help facilitate mutual trust and confidence<\/strong> between countries and allow parties and non-party stakeholders to understand the state of climate action in each country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Biennial Transparency Report FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is the Paris Agreement?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty adopted in 2015, aiming to limit global warming to well below 2\u00b0C, preferably to 1.5\u00b0C, above pre-industrial levels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What are Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. GHG Emissions refer to the release of gases into Earth&#8217;s atmosphere that trap heat, contributing to the greenhouse effect and global warming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What are small island developing states (SIDS)?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are a distinct group of 39 States and 18 Associate Members of United Nations regional commissions that face unique social, economic and environmental vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/india-to-submit-updated-greenhouse-gas-inventory-to-un-soon\/article69234598.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biennial Transparency Report (BTR) is a report prepared and submitted by Parties to the Paris Agreement that captures information on their progress in implementing the different aspects of the Agreement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}