The COP29 Presidency has announced the launch of the Baku Global Climate Transparency Platform (BTP) to support developing countries in addressing climate change.
The BTP, created in collaboration with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is designed to bring together parties and stakeholders to help prepare and submit the Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs) of developing countries. It aims to help encourage participation in the Enhanced Transparency Framework and advance the transparency agenda beyond COP29.
In its first phase, the BTP will focus on enabling the delivery of the reports before stakeholders are then able to use the platform for the implementation and participation in the transparency framework. This will help participants track progress made by parties throughout 2024 and beyond.
To accelerate the BTR process ahead of COP29, Zulfiya Suleimenova, adviser to the president of Kazakhstan and special representative for International Environmental Cooperation, and Francesco Corvaro, Italy’s special envoy for climate change, have been appointed as high-level co-pairs for transparency at COP. The new co-pairs are tasked with enhancing political awareness of transparency, alongside hosting a series of regional workshops on transparency across the globe.
Speaking at the launch of the Baku Global Climate Transparency Platform, COP29 president designate, Mukhtar Babayev, said: “The COP29 presidency has launched the BTP as a crucial step to enhance the ambition contained within the next generation of national climate plans. By openly reporting our words and deeds, our progress and our challenges, we can share with the world our commitment to achieving our climate goals. With the BTP, we want to assist developing country parties in preparing and completing their BTRs in a timely manner.
“With transparency being a key part of the Paris Agreement, and crucial to our fight against climate change, I have also announced the appointment of the COP29 high-level co-pairs for transparency, Zulfiya Suleimenova, adviser to the president of Kazakhstan and special representative for International Environmental Cooperation, and Francesco Corvaro, Italy’s special envoy for climate change. Together, they will help build political engagement on the importance of transparency and the COP29 presidency looks forward to working with the new co-pairs. I express my deep gratitude to them for their collaboration and commitment.”
