Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) on the release of its 2025 Impact Report, which highlights how countries around the world are strengthening climate transparency systems and building the institutional foundations needed to implement their commitments under the Paris Agreement.
As an implementing partner for ICAT country projects, GHGMI works directly with governments and national institutions to build technical capacity, strengthen data systems, and support the development of tools that help countries monitor and implement their climate commitments. These efforts help countries track progress toward their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and strengthen reporting under the Paris Agreement.
The 2025 Impact Report reflects the growing global recognition that transparency is essential for effective climate governance. Robust greenhouse gas inventories, monitoring systems, and policy assessment tools help countries design evidence-based climate policies and demonstrate progress toward their goals.
In 2025 alone, ICAT supported 54 active country projects and trained more than 1,500 people worldwide, strengthening the capacity of national institutions to track climate progress and inform climate policymaking.
GHGMI is proud to contribute to these efforts by supporting several ICAT country projects across Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Central Asia, and the Pacific. The following highlights illustrate how partner countries are using transparency systems to strengthen climate action.
How GHGMI Countries are Strengthening Climate Transparency
Bolivia
Bolivia developed a framework and a tracking tool to monitor energy-sector climate targets. The system includes indicators, data flows, and automated reporting features that help organize climate data and support national reporting under the Paris Agreement.
Chad
ICAT support in Chad is helping strengthen the country’s national transparency framework, including systems for greenhouse gas inventories and climate reporting. The project focuses on improving institutional arrangements and building technical capacity to support the implementation of national climate commitments.
Comoros
In Comoros, ICAT support focuses on developing systems for monitoring and reporting climate action. The project strengthens institutional capacity and lays the foundations for a national transparency framework.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo focuses on strengthening national transparency systems by integrating existing sectoral monitoring systems—particularly those related to land use and forestry—into a more comprehensive national framework aligned with international reporting requirements.
El Salvador
ICAT support helped El Salvador strengthen its national system for tracking progress toward its climate commitments. The project developed dozens of indicators aligned with the Paris Agreement’s transparency framework and supported the creation of a national digital platform to monitor NDC implementation, improving coordination across government institutions.
Haiti
In Haiti, ICAT support focuses on improving climate data management and strengthening institutional capacity for monitoring climate actions. These efforts help national institutions track progress toward climate goals and improve reporting systems.
Madagascar
Madagascar developed its first practical tool for tracking NDC implementation, using analytical models to estimate emissions trends and monitor the impacts of climate actions across key sectors.
Mali
In Mali, ICAT support focuses on strengthening climate transparency systems and building national capacity to monitor climate policies and track progress toward NDC implementation.
Niger
The ICAT project in Niger focuses on strengthening national systems for monitoring climate policies and assessing the impacts of mitigation actions. These efforts support more effective tracking of climate progress and help inform future climate planning.
Nigeria
Nigeria’s ICAT work has contributed to strengthening national systems for monitoring, reporting, and verifying climate actions, including improved institutional coordination and enhanced capacity for climate data management.
Paraguay
Paraguay is developing tools and frameworks to improve the monitoring of climate actions and evaluate the impacts of key policies. These efforts support transparency and help guide implementation of the country’s climate strategy.
Saint Kitts and Nevis
The ICAT project supported the development of an NDC tracking framework for renewable energy and electric transport, including indicators and institutional arrangements to monitor progress toward the country’s ambitious emissions-reduction targets.
Tajikistan
Tajikistan is developing tools to estimate greenhouse gas emissions projections and track progress toward NDC targets in key sectors. These efforts support better analysis of climate policies and help strengthen national transparency systems.
Vanuatu
ICAT support in Vanuatu helped strengthen the country’s greenhouse gas inventory and transparency systems, enabling the government to use improved data and analysis to inform updates to its national climate commitments.
These country experiences demonstrate how climate transparency systems—such as greenhouse gas inventories, NDC tracking frameworks, and policy impact assessments—help governments translate climate commitments into measurable action.
Transparency as the Foundation for Climate Ambition
Across these projects, a common theme emerges: countries are building the systems needed to track climate progress, evaluate policies, and improve reporting under the Paris Agreement.
As the ICAT Impact Report highlights, transparency is not simply about reporting emissions—it is a critical foundation for credible climate action, helping governments design stronger policies, monitor implementation, and build trust in global climate cooperation.
GHGMI congratulates ICAT on the publication of the 2025 Impact Report and looks forward to continuing to support partner countries as they strengthen transparency systems and advance ambitious climate action.
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