Project Overview

The Establishing Lebanon's Transparency Framework project, under the Global Environment Facility (GEF)Capacity-Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) initiative, aims to assist Lebanon in meeting the enhanced transparency requirements of the Paris Agreement. The project established a robust framework for measuring, reporting, and verifying (MRV) system for climate mitigation and adaptation actions. This project focuses on establishing sustainable governance structures, enhancing data collection mechanisms, and improving institutional capacities to track emissions and climate actions effectively.

Project Objective

• Strengthens governance structures and institutional coordination on climate change.
• Enhances Greenhouse Gas (GHG)[MS3.1] inventory and policy tracking capabilities.
• Improves climate finance tracking and reporting.
• Ensures better compliance with the Paris Agreement Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)[MS4.1] and global assessment of how countries are advancing toward limiting temperature rise, strengthening adaptation and resilience, and aligning finance with low-emission, climate-resilient development.
   

Achievements & Key Figures

• Established and validated Lebanon’s first National Transparency Strategy[HM8.1], aligning institutional structures and reporting mechanisms with the Paris Agreement’s Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) and defining roles, arrangements, and indicators for coordinated climate data management and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) tracking across ministries, UN agencies, academia, and the private sector. Formed 8 national sectoral Task Forces (energy, transport, agriculture, forestry, waste, water, health, and DRR/biodiversity/resilient cities) with official Terms of Reference, roles, and reporting modalities.
• Developed 166 national mitigation and adaptation indicators used for NDC progress tracking and incorporated into Lebanon’s First Biennial Transparency Report (BTR1) submitted in 2024.
• Enhanced national datasets for energy, transport, LULUCF, and waste sectors, improving accuracy, completeness, and alignment with IPCC 2006 Guidelines.
• Trained over 178 national experts and government staff on GHG inventory preparation, mitigation quantification, NDC tracking, and adaptation indicator development.
• Developed eight comprehensive training modules covering IPCC guidelines, adaptation reporting, and transparency framework implementation, ensuring long-term institutional knowledge retention.
• Designed and tested the MISCAL (Management Information System for Climate Action Lebanon) online platform, featuring sector-specific pages for data entry, validation, and indicator management across 8 sectors.
• Drafted a Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) plan for the transparency strategy to institutionalize progress tracking and ensure long-term sustainability.
• Promoted Lebanon’s transparency achievements and shared lessons learned through six major international events including CBIT-GSP, UNFCCC ETF courses, and side events at COP28, COP29 and COP30.
• Supported Lebanon’s participation in global transparency dialogues, including contributions to the Fifteenth Facilitative Sharing of Views (FSV-15) and CBIT Global Support Programme (GSP) exchanges.
• Contributed to the drafting of the NDC 3.0 based on stakeholder consultations and data generated through the CBIT project.
   

GESI Component (Gender Equality and Social Inclusion)

The project is designated with a GEN2 gender marker, indicating that gender equality is a significant objective. It ensures the meaningful participation of youth and women in the development of national climate policy and maintains gender parity (51%) across task forces, trainings, and stakeholder consultations. A specific Gender Action Plan (Annex M) mainstreams gender considerations into all transparency-related activities, integrating gender-disaggregated indicators across key sectors such as agriculture, water, forestry, and health. The project also developed gender-inclusive transparency indicators that address equitable access to resources, climate resilience, and economic participation, ensuring that data collection and climate policies are responsive to the different needs and roles of all social groups.