Biennial Update Report submissions from Non-Annex I Parties

Non-Annex I Parties, consistent with their capabilities and the level of support provided for reporting, should submit their first BUR by December 2014, and every two years thereafter. The least developed country Parties and small island developing States may submit BURs at their own discretion. The BURs shall be prepared in accordance with the guidelines contained in decision 2/CP.17 (decision 2/CP17).

The BURs shall be submitted using the National Reports Submission Portal (NRSP). Questions relating to the use of the submission portal should be addressed to reporting-nai@unfccc.int.

Recent submissions^*
BUR cycle	Total	Party
BUR1	45	Panama, 14 December 2018 Yemen, 02 October 2018 El Salvador, 29 September 2018
BUR2	20	Mexico, 28 November 2018 Ghana, 02 October 2018 Malaysia, 27 September 2018
BUR3	1	Chile, 03 December 2018

_{* Only the initial submissions of BURs are considered in this summary table.

Detailed information on resubmissions of BURs and submissions of any related document is available in the table below.}

Status of BUR submissions
Party	BUR1	BUR2	BUR3
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra	BUR1 19 Dec 2014	BUR2 2 Aug 2017
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina	BUR1 9 Dec 2015	BUR2 22 Aug 2017
Armenia	BUR1 29 Apr 2016 NIR 1 Mar 2016	BUR2 5 May 2018 NIR 5 May 2018
Azerbaijan	BUR1 31 Mar 2015	BUR2 26 Sep 2018
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BUR1 12 Mar 2015	BUR2 13 Jun 2017
Botswana
Brazil	BUR1 31 Dec 2014	BUR2 3 Mar 2017
Brunei Darussalam
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cabo Verde (Republic of)
Cambodia
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile	BUR1 10 Dec 2014 NIR 5 Feb 2015	BUR2 21 Apr 2017 NIR 19 May 2017	BUR3 03 Dec 2018 Additional information 03 Dec 2018
China	BUR1 12 Jan 2017
Colombia	BUR1 11 Dec 2015 Technical Annex on REDD plus 26 Feb 2016
Comoros
Congo
Cook Islands
Costa Rica	BUR1 9 Dec 2015 NIR 9 Dec 2015
Côte d'Ivoire	BUR1 19 Jul 2018
Cuba
Cyprus
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador	BUR1 21 Sep 2016 NIR 11 Jul 2017
Egypt
El Salvador	BUR1 29 Sep 2018
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Fiji
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia	BUR1 18 Jul 2016 NIR 18 Jul 2016
Ghana	BUR1 21 Jul 2015 NIR 21 Jul 2015	BUR2 2 Oct 2018
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
India	BUR1 22 Jan 2016
Indonesia	BUR1 18 Mar 2016
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iraq
Israel	BUR1 18 Apr 2016
Jamaica	BUR1 18 Nov 2016
Jordan	BUR1 8 Nov 2017
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Lebanon	BUR1 13 Oct 2015	BUR2 13 Oct 2017
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia	BUR1 3 Mar 2016	BUR2 27 Sep 2018
Maldives
Mali
Marshall Islands
Mauritania	BUR1 14 Mar 2016 NIR 2 Sep 2016
Mauritius
Mexico	BUR1 23 Oct 2015	BUR2 28 Nov 2018 GHG Inventory 28 Nov 2018
Micronesia (Federated States of)
Mongolia	Revised BUR1 and NIR 30 Aug 2017 (original submission date: 6 Aug 2017)
Montenegro	BUR1 13 Jan 2016
Morocco	BUR1 7 May 2016
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia	BUR1 2 Dec 2014 NIR1 13 Jul 2016	BUR2 10 Nov 2016 NIR2 10 Nov 2016
Nauru
Nepal
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria	BUR1 17 Mar 2018
Niue
Oman (Sultanate of)
Pakistan
Palau
Palestine
Panama	BUR1 14 Dec 2018
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay	BUR1 30 Dec 2015
Peru	BUR1 30 Dec 2014
Philippines
Qatar
Republic of Korea	BUR1 29 Dec 2014	BUR2 16 Nov 2017
Republic of Moldova	BUR1 5 Apr 2016 NIR 5 Apr 2016
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia	BUR1 3 April 2018
Senegal
Serbia	BUR1 28 Mar 2016
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore	BUR1 8 Dec 2014	BUR2 16 Dec 2016
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa	BUR1 17 Dec 2014 NIR 17 Dec 2014	BUR2 28 Dec 2017 NIR 22 Feb 2018
South Sudan
Somalia
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Syrian Arab Republic
Tajikistan
Thailand	BUR1 29 Dec 2015	BUR2 29 December 2017
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	BUR1 26 Feb 2015	BUR2 5 Mar 2018 NIR 5 March 2018
Timor-Leste
Togo	BUR1 27 Sep 2017 NIR 27 Sep 2017
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia	BUR1 31 Dec 2014	BUR2 31 Dec 2016
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
United Arab Emirates
United Republic of Tanzania
Uruguay	BUR1 7 Dec 2015	BUR2 29 December 2017 Annex to BUR2 29 December 2017
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Viet Nam	BUR1 8 Dec 2014	BUR2 20 Nov 2017
Yemen	BUR1 2 Oct 2018
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Note: All submissions received from Parties are posted “as received”. The publication of Party submissions on this website does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the UNFCCC or the secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries as may be referred to in any of the submissions.

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