By Sergey KONONOV Implementation Programme Annex I Sub-Programme 11 June 2003 Expert selection for in-depth reviews of Annex I national communications: requirements, experience, problems By Sergey KONONOV Implementation Programme Annex I Sub-Programme 16 May 2019

To be presented: Procedure for in-depth reviews (IDRs) Procedure for expert selection Statistics of experts nominations/use Problems/possible actions… 16 May 2019

IDR procedure Mandate from COP1,2,3,5 (1995-1997, 1999): IDRs include visits of review teams All NCs of Annex I Parties to be IDR-ed Guidelines: doc. FCCC/CP/1999/7 (pp.80-100) In-depth review of a national communication: compilation & synthesis of all NCs by the secretariat in-depth review (IDRs) of each communication review by SBs and COP At present, the 3rd round of IDRs (3rd NCs) 34 (of 40) communications received 21 Parties reviewed 16 May 2019

UNFCCC roster of experts Expert selection Requirements: - inventory - P&M - projections - V&A, research - tech. transfer - awareness Team composition: - Annex II - EIT - non-Annex I - additional non-Ann.I UNFCCC roster of experts IDR team 16 May 2019

Statistics of experts use (for Annex I reviews) Annex II (funded directly by the Parties): 22 experts (17 Parties) EITs (funded through the secretariat) 17 experts (11 Parties) Non-Annex I (funded through the secretariat + additional support of Annex I Parties) 32 experts (30 Parties) 16 May 2019

Problems… Absence of nominations (see next…) Insufficient nominations: qualifications number of nominees Incomplete nominations Long time to nominate (focal points…) 16 May 2019

Problems… (cont’d) nominations available nominations not available Annex II (24 Parties) 22 2 EITs (14 Parties) 9 5 non-Annex I (148 Parties) 43 105 16 May 2019

Possible actions… Identify / nominate experts on-line nomination available Respond if secretariat asks to nominate National focal points 16 May 2019

Conclusions IDR of NCs – important IDR – a challenging, difficult task Nomination of experts – a necessity Experts = contribution to IDR + capacity building beneficial to UNFCCC beneficial to the Parties beneficial to the experts National focal points – key to improvement 16 May 2019

Nominations by Party Annex II (not nominated) Iceland, Luxembourg EITs Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine Non-Annex I (nominated) Albania (5), Antigua and Barbuda (1), Argentina (2), Azerbaijan (3), Barbados (1), Bolivia (2), Brazil (6), Burundi (1), Chile (2), China (44), Colombia (3), Cuba (1), Fiji (1), Grenada (1), Guyana (1), Indonesia (13), Israel (2), Kazakhstan (7), Kenya (2), Kiribati (1), Lebanon (1), Lesotho (2), Malaysia (2), Mali (1), Mongolia (2), Morocco (1), Niger (3), Nigeria (5), Pakistan (1), Peru (3), Republic of Korea (1), Republic of Moldova (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Senegal (10), South Africa (1), Sri Lanka (9), Thailand (1), Togo (6), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Uganda (1), United Republic of Tanzania (1), Uruguay (6), Vanuatu (1) 16 May 2019