Representatives from the Climate Change Commission joined the Asian Regional Workshop in February 2026 to strengthen regional collaboration, share best practices, and advance climate resilience efforts across Asia.

MANILA — The Climate Change Commission (CCC) underscored the importance of strengthening transparent and accountable climate reporting systems under the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) of the Paris Agreement, as countries continue to address persistent challenges in climate data reporting and disclosure.

The ETF serves as the global framework for tracking climate action, requiring Parties to submit structured reports on greenhouse gas emissions, adaptation efforts, and progress on climate commitments through the Biennial Transparency Report (BTR), including support needed, provided, and received. It aims to ensure that climate actions are transparent, comparable, and verifiable.

Despite its importance, implementation of the ETF continues to face common challenges across countries, including non-centralized data collection systems, limited financial and technical resources, varying levels of familiarity with reporting requirements, and limited access to standardized reporting tools. These gaps affect the consistency and quality of climate transparency reporting.

CCC Vice Chairperson and Executive Director Robert E. A. Borje emphasized the importance of strengthening transparency systems under the ETF.

“Strengthening transparency systems under the Enhanced Transparency Framework is essential to ensure that climate reporting is consistent, credible, and evidence-based as we move toward the next reporting cycle,” Borje said.

The CCC emphasized that strengthening institutional arrangements and improving national data systems are critical to ensuring credible and reliable climate reporting. Transparent systems are essential to support evidence-based decision-making and to translate climate commitments into measurable outcomes.

The CCC also highlighted the importance of aligning reporting processes with ETF modalities, procedures, and guidelines under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement, to strengthen coherence, improve data integrity, and support continuous improvement of reporting systems.

As part of ongoing efforts to strengthen transparency systems, the CCC continues to prioritize capacity-building, data integration, and institutional coordination to enhance the country’s climate reporting architecture and ensure sustained compliance with the Enhanced Transparency Framework.