This document contains the programme budget for the biennium 2022–2023 proposed by the Executive Secretary.

The biennium 2022–2023 will be critical for realizing increased ambition under the Paris Agreement through intergovernmental engagement, support for technical processes and institutions, and management and sharing of data and information. However, the Executive Secretary, mindful of the financial constraints imposed by the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, has taken a responsible and reasonable approach to the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2022–2023.

Consequently, the proposed core budget for the Convention, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement under a zero real growth scenario, in order to take into consideration statutory and other unavoidable cost increases, is estimated at EUR 62.3 million for the biennium 2022–2023. As mandated, a zero nominal growth scenario that maintains the total core budget at the approved 2020–2021 resource level of EUR 59.7 million is also presented.

In addition to the detailed information contained in this document on how the proposed programme budget was developed and its different components, the two addenda to this document provide further details on the work programme of the secretariat and the corresponding resource requirements, and the budget of the international transaction log.

Additional supporting data and information on the 2022–2023 programme budget are available on the UNFCCC website at https://unfccc.int/about-us/budget.