ASEAN Measurement and Reporting Guidelines Revealed at COP27

29 August 2023 -

The Semi-final Version of “the ASEAN Guidelines on Facility-level GHG Measurement and Reporting”, which had been in progress since 2019, was unveiled at the Singapore Pavilion at the 27th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

In the side-event PaSTI-JAIF Project on Development and Implementation of Facility Level Monitoring and Reporting (M&R) Framework for Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions in ASEAN Member States (AMS), H.E. Ms. Grace Fu, Minister of Sustainability and the Environment, Singapore, H.E. Mr. NISHIMURA Akihiro, Minister of the Environment, Japan, and H.E. Mr. Ekkaphab Phanthavong, Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for Socio-Cultural Community, ASEAN Secretariat gave remarks and welcomed the outcome.

This regional guideline had been formed in the second phase of the PaSTI-JAIF Project based on “Roadmap for Designing Facility Level GHG M&R Guideline for ASEAN Region” published as an outcome of the first phase in 2021, through detailed study and deliberate discussions by the ASEAN Member States. The semi-final draft guidelines will be finalised through the public comments.