Ukraine submits its first Biennial Transparency Report (BTR) to the UNFCCC

On 29 Octo­ber 2025, Ukraine’s first Bien­ni­al Trans­paren­cy Report (BTR) was pub­lished on the web­site of the Unit­ed Nations Frame­work Con­ven­tion on Cli­mate Change (UNFCCC). The report marks an impor­tant step in ful­fill­ing the country’s com­mit­ments under the Paris Agree­ment.

In line with the Enhanced Trans­paren­cy Frame­work (ETF), the BTR out­lines how coun­tries track and com­mu­ni­cate their progress in meet­ing cli­mate tar­gets. It pro­vides trans­par­ent, com­pa­ra­ble, and cred­i­ble infor­ma­tion on efforts to reduce green­house gas emis­sions, adapt to the impacts of cli­mate change, and pro­mote sus­tain­able devel­op­ment.

Ukraine’s first BTR reflects a peri­od of pro­found trans­for­ma­tion in nation­al cli­mate pol­i­cy, achieved despite the con­di­tions of a full-scale Russ­ian war against Ukraine. The report presents:

— data on green­house gas emis­sions and removals in up to 2023;

— cli­mate poli­cies and mea­sures imple­ment­ed in the fields of mit­i­ga­tion and adap­ta­tion;

— chal­lenges, includ­ing those aris­ing from Russia’s full-scale inva­sion, as well as oppor­tu­ni­ties, includ­ing those relat­ed to the country’s green recov­ery efforts.

By sub­mit­ting the BTR, Ukraine reaf­firms its com­mit­ment to trans­paren­cy, account­abil­i­ty, and inter­na­tion­al cli­mate coop­er­a­tion, strength­en­ing its posi­tion in the con­text of Euro­pean inte­gra­tion and sus­tain­able recon­struc­tion.

The report builds a foun­da­tion for devel­op­ing future Nation­al­ly Deter­mined Con­tri­bu­tions (NDCs) and long-term cli­mate strate­gies through 2050.

The BTR was pre­pared for the Min­istry of Econ­o­my, Envi­ron­ment and Agri­cul­ture of Ukraine by experts from the State Orga­ni­za­tion “Insti­tute for Eco­nom­ics and Fore­cast­ing of the Nation­al Acad­e­my of Sci­ences of Ukraine” and the Nation­al Green­house Gas Inven­to­ry Cen­tre, under the project “Sup­port­ing Ukraine in the imple­men­ta­tion of the Paris Agree­ment and adap­ta­tion to the impact of cli­mate change in the Black Sea region (PAABS).”

The PAABS project is imple­ment­ed by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Inter­na­tionale Zusam­me­nar­beit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment of Ger­many with­in the frame­work of the Inter­na­tion­al Cli­mate Ini­tia­tive (IKI).