Article 4 of the Paris Agreement urges countries to develop a robust measuring, reporting, and verification (MRV) system to assess and track climate change actions and policies, and their impacts on the NDC. Per Article 4, every country (except the least developed countries) shall report on the progress of NDC mitigation commitment implementation, adaptation efforts, and international support received biennially. Bangladesh as a member of non-Annex I Parties has established this integrated MRV platform to develop a well-referenced, verifiable, and cost-effective greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory and establish a sustainable adaptation, mitigation and finance tracking system for improved reporting. The Department of Environment (DoE) as a mandated Government agency under the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) is hosting this Bangladesh MRV platform for data sharing, archiving, and fostering institutional arrangements among the concerned government agencies to comply with the TCCCA (transparent, consistent, comparable, complete and accurate) reporting principles for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, adaptation, mitigation, and finance. 

The MRV platform has been established under the project “Strengthening capacity for monitoring environmental emissions under the Paris Agreement in Bangladesh” with financial support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and technical assistance from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It is expected that the Bangladesh MRV platform will directly help the preparation of national GHG inventory for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU), Energy, Industrial Processes and Product Use (IPPU) and Waste sectors by providing updated emission activity, adaptation, mitigation, and finance data with a permanent archiving system by bringing all the relevant stakeholders on a single platform for data sharing, analysis, and interpretation.