UNFCCC-GIR-CASTT Programme on Greenhouse Gases
CASTT: Climate Action and Support Transparency Training
Offered in collaboration by the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Greenhouse Gas Inventory & Research Center of Korea (GIR) from 2017, UNFCCC-GIR-CASTT is a professional training on greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories to national experts from developing countries.
GHG inventories are a key source of information necessary to understand where each country and the global community stand in terms of GHG emissions. Through a tailored and focused approach, the programme aims to significantly boost the technical capacity of developing countries.
Since 2017, 216 trainees from 90 countries* have successfully completed the training and they are contributing lessons learned from the programme to their home countries as international experts to enhance national capability responding to climate change.
The organizational collaboration will serve as a model for delivering a targeted professional training programme, and for future South-South cooperation that responds to the training needs of developing countries in the areas of MRV and the transparency framework.
*as of 23 April 2024
About GIR
Greenhouse Gas Inventory & Research Center of Korea (GIR) was established in 2010 under the 「Framework Act on Low Carbon Green Growth」 as a government institute affiliated to the Ministry of Environment of Korea that serves as a think-tank on GHG inventory and mitigation.
Key functions of GIR include management of national GHG inventory, national and sectoral-level GHG reduction targets, and implementation of research on GHG mitigation modeling.
For global cooperation, GIR has been organizing the International Greenhouse Gas Conference (IGC) as well as its unique GHG training programme since 2011 (renamed to 'UNFCCC-GIR-CASTT Programme on GHGs' after collaboratively organizing with UNFCCC secretariat from 2017) to share Korea's experiences and support capacity-building of developing countries.
