Vision, Mission and Objectives

Vision
To become a Centre of Excellency for climate change studies and greenhouse gas emissions estimation

Mission
To build technical capacity to measure, verify and report adequately and transparently on greenhouse gas emissions at national, regional and international levels.

Strategic Objectives
The general objective of the Centre is to build technical capacity to measure, verify and report adequately and transparently on greenhouse gas emissions at national, regional and international level.

The specific objectives of the Centre are:

1. To manage, develop, sustain operations of the national GHGs inventory and REDD+ MRV systems and facilitate validation of results for the UNFCCC and International community in collaboration with VPO;
2. To maximize usefulness of the data generated and develop different programmes and projects with a technical GHGs and REDD+ MRV component and define steps in MRV training, researched, consultancies and dissemination
3. To coordinate national GHGs inventory and national forest inventories
4. To harness available national capacity and support from regional and international expertise to operationalize the GHGs and REDD+ Inventory System; and
5. To advice policies related to GHGs emissions and mitigation actions.