MRV in Practice: Experience in Turkey with designing and implementing a system for monitoring, reporting and verification of emissions

Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) systems are used extensively in a number of carbon pricing mechanism and trading schemes worldwide. Besides, MRV provides information about emission sources and trends, allows tracking progress towards climate change-related targets and steer mitigation actions so that the targets can be achieved. It helps companies to increase their energy efficiency and reduce their emissions. For all applications, MRV systems are key elements to guarantee transparency, precision and comparability on climate change information.
The aim of this report is to present the experiences and lessons learnt during the establishment of a tailor-made MRV system for energy and industry sector related greenhouse gases in Turkey. As a best practice, it provides guidance to ministries, programme and system administrators and other actors in the field on how an effective MRV system can be designed and implemented.
The present report includes a brief description of the regulatory MRV framework in Turkey and the roles and responsibilities of the main MRV actors. The core is the presentation of the data management system (DMS) which has been developed from scratch and has become a highly valued tool by all users. The technical architecture as well as the functional components of the DMS are presented in detail. Furthermore, the capacity development measures which make the entire MRV system so successful are outlined.