Following provisions of decision 2/CP.17 developed country Parties are requested to submit their first biennial report (BR1) to the secretariat by 1 January 2014 and could present the BR1 as an annex to the national communication (NC) or as a separate report.  NC and NC with annexed BR should be submitted to secretariat through the UNFCCC Submission Portal. Questions related to the use of the submission portal should be addressed to:  GHGINVAI@unfccc.int

COP 19 by its decision 19/CP.18, adopted the common tabular format (CTF) for the “UNFCCC biennial reporting guidelines for developed country Parties”, noting that developed country Parties, in accordance with decision 2/CP.17, shall use the reporting guidelines for the preparation of their BRs and will provide information on all the elements of the guidelines in these reports.  Also, COP 19 requested the secretariat to develop an electronic reporting application for the CTF (biennial reporting common tabular format (BR CTF) application). The BR CTF application was released by the secretariat for Parties’ use in July 2013. Following provisions of decision 19/CP.18, developed country Parties shall use this application when preparing and submitting their BRs. BR CTF should be submitted to the secretariat through the BR CTF application and a textual portion of BR1, if presented as a separate report, should be sent to the secretariat by email: Reporting_Review@unfccc.int

Questions related to the use of BR CTF application should be addressed to: Reporting_Review@unfccc.int