The Nepal Government has approved the Biennial Transparency Report (BTR) on climate change impacts and adaptation and other related areas.  

Minister for Forest and Environment Ain Bahadur Shahi Thakuri approved BTR on Thursday.

The Ministry of Forest and Environment stated that BTR will be announced in the Sagarmatha Sambaad taking place from today.  

Minister Shahi hoped that approval of BTR and announcement in Sagarmatha Sambaad would spread a positive message about Nepal's commitments to the climate change impacts.   

Parties to the Paris Agreement are required to submit BTR every two years. According to the modalities, procedures and guidelines (MPGs) for the Enhanced Transparency Framework, BTR include information on national inventory reports (NIR), progress towards NDCs, policies and measures, climate change impacts and adaptation, levels of financial, technology development and transfer and capacity-building support, capacity-building needs and areas of improvement, according to the UN agencies. 

Likewise, the government has approved the third Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC-3) climate action plan and decided to send its report to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Similarly, the government has decided to approve the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Government of Nepal and the Government of India on Biodiversity Conservation and to authorize the Ministry of Forests and Environment to sign the MoU by coordinating with the counterparts.