This training material is based on the  Article 6.2 Reference Manual for the accounting, reporting and review of cooperative approaches and offers guidance on CMA decisions and addresses the roles and processes of reviewing the information reported by Parties who have chosen to participate in a cooperative approach.

Chapter 1 provides a brief introduction of the Paris Agreement, the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) and the purpose of this training material.

Chapter 2 provides a brief explanation of cooperative approaches referred to in Article 6, paragraph 2 on the Paris Agreement, in particular the decisions taken on guidance for its operationalization: Decision 2/CMA.3 and Decision 6/CMA.4. It also explains the "accounting requirements" for cooperative approaches, in particular the "corresponding adjustment" necessary to avoid "double counting"

Chapter 3 presents and explains the technical expert review process of the information reported under Article 6 (hereinafter referred to as Article 6 technical expert review), including its relationship with the technical expert review and FMCP under the ETF.

The annexes contain possible cross-checks and guiding questions to be made by the Article 6 technical expert review team (annex I) when reviewing the Initial Report; exercise/questions related to the review of the Initial Report (annex II); references used in this manual (annex III); the outline of the Article 6 technical expert review report on the initial report and updated initial report (annex IV); and the outline of the Article 6 technical expert review report on the regular information annex to the biennial transparency report (annex V).