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MRV & Transparency
Our approach to MRV and transparency
Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) is essential for integrating climate and other environmental dimensions into sectoral, national, and subnational decision making. Our approach is based on over 25 years of data gathering, analysis, quality assurance, reporting, and stakeholder engagement. Target setting and monitoring progress towards targets, identifying needs and gaps, aligning investment and support, and driving ambition needs good quality, dependable data on the impacts of human activities on the environment. Our MRV support services include a wide thematic scope across mitigation, adaptation, and support, and integrates analysis of wider impacts on sustainable development associated with action taking. Important thematic areas are outlined below.
Aether’s approach to developing capacity for high value MRV and transparency has been well tested and proven. It focuses on structuring support and breaking down specific areas for development requiring different thematic or cross cutting skills. This approach enables the rapid identification of training and capacity building needs and provides a clear framework for sharing of knowledge and lessons learned. This enables an entity e.g. organisation, country, or region, to build sustainable, comprehensive, and valuable MRV systems. The approach is outlined below.
Aether's partnership approach
Capacity building, mentoring, and support is a central goal for our MRV systems projects. We aim to work in partnership with our customers to deliver high quality, sustained data flows, effective engagement with decision makers, and decision support tools. We recognise that different customers have different needs and provide outsourced services that are tailored to these needs. This includes expert data gathering, compilation, stakeholder engagement, reporting, and/or verification service. We cater for small to medium sized customer-defined projects on knowledge sharing, training, and mentoring with a focus on helping their own teams develop and grow. Throughout our work we put a strong emphasis on stakeholder engagement, identifying key individuals and organisations and helping our customers to engage closely and sustainably with them in the long term, and building value in the work they do.
Aether's MRV portals
Aether’s MRV portals are bespoke, online, collaborative platform services designed to complement our consultancy, training, and mentoring services. Our customers are increasingly required to gather data on a regular basis from an array of different stakeholders and prepare a range of transparent reports, websites, briefings, and engagement activities. Aether’s MRV portals help with this task by providing a central place for data gathering, data structuring, archiving, and reporting solutions that can be accessed by a range of contributing stakeholders and used by focal points to collate information. Our MRV portals can support teams working on one or more thematic areas including GHG inventory and projections, analysis of risks and vulnerabilities, and gathering, enhancing, and reporting information on adaptation and mitigation actions and their support. Our customisable tool helps with keeping track of stakeholders, tasks, improvements, outputs, and reporting activities, for example, under Paris Agreement and its Enhanced Transparency Framework as well as other reporting frameworks. Aether’s portals are flexible online databases that can be provided using third party software services or designed and built from scratch to our well tested specification by our clients’ own IT team.
Our portals offer structured data collection, management, and output templates. During an MRV project data may be collected from a range of sources including surveys, reporting templates, model outputs, method descriptions, and stakeholder engagement. The portal offers a framework for collating and recording this data. We are continuously developing outputs that add value to the inputted data by enabling it to be used in multiple ways. We develop automated output tables that can be used in BURs, BTRs, NDCs, NCs, and other national reports. We also have expertise in providing a range of engagement tools including data visualisation, training and mentoring, and stakeholder consultation.
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