Climate governance & transparency
Facilitative Sharing of Views (FSV)
The UNFCCC workshop process in which developing countries present their biennial update reports and answer other Parties' questions.
Definition
The facilitative sharing of views is the second step of the international consultation and analysis (ICA) process, established at COP16 (2010) for Parties not included in Annex I. After a team of technical experts analyses a Party's biennial update report (BUR), the Party presents it at an SBI workshop and responds to oral and written questions. The process is non-intrusive, non-punitive and respectful of national sovereignty; the appropriateness of domestic policies is excluded.
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What it means
FSV mirrors the multilateral assessment applied to developed countries, but is designed around capacity constraints: it doubles as a learning process that has steadily improved developing-country reporting ahead of the Paris Agreement's enhanced transparency framework.
How it is used
SBI convenes FSV workshops several times a year, each covering up to five Parties; summary reports are published after each session.
Why it matters
FSV and ICA built the transparency capacity of the developing world — a precondition for the universal reporting the Paris regime now requires.
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