Project Summary

Brunei is a partner country under the AKCMM Project, with methane identified as one of the priority greenhouse gases covered by its NDC (NDC3.0, p15). National methane emissions are concentrated in the energy and waste sectors, particularly in fugitive emissions and solid waste disposal.  

Through the AKCMM Project, Brunei focuses on strengthening national technical capacity for methane mitigation, improving the transparency and accuracy of its MRV systems and enhancing stakeholder engagement to support institutional readiness for planning and implementation of methane mitigation measures within a broader decarbonization framework.

The project utilizes methane as a strategic entry point to strengthen Brunei’s GHG mitigation systems across all sectors. By reframing AKCMM outputs to directly support Brunei’s capacity building for GHG mitigation, the initiative adapts the project to national climate priorities. This approach enhances policy coherence, builds engagement with key stakeholders including national knowledge institutions, strengthens GHG MRV systems, ensures sustainable project outputs, and establishes Brunei as a regional case study of “context-driven adaptation” within the AKCMM framework. 

Source: Brunei NDC 3.0

Goal and Objectives

Against this backdrop, the project focuses on the following areas: 

  1. Contextually reframe the AKCMM strategy in Brunei to support broader decarbonization goals while emphasizing methane as a priority area, maintaining policy neutrality and ensuring alignment with the programme’s regional objectives.
  2. Build national technical capacity, both in the short and long term. The short-term strategy includes workshops focusing on technical training, emission modelling, and verification support. The long-term strategy strengthens collaboration and knowledge exchange on GHG and methane mitigation between government, academia, and industry stakeholders.
  3. Strengthen policy-academe interlinkages by engaging national knowledge institutions as academic and technical partners. An academia-led climate capacity building program will be implemented to enhance understanding of methane MRV; align governance, academic, and operator-level approaches; and promote sustainable knowledge transfer beyond the AKCMM project lifecycle. 

 

Project Outputs

  • A national methane emissions Gap Analysis Report is under development. This report is based on a review of Brunei’s Biennial Transparency Report (BTR1) and provides strategic recommendations to optimize the national methane emission inventory.  
  • An academia-led climate capacity building program will be implemented to strengthen Brunei’s broader GHG systems while building national technical capacity for methane mitigation.  
  • A National GHG MRV and Mitigation Framework will be developed to respond to Brunei’s GHG mitigation priorities, while also serving as a roadmap to integrating methane MRV with national systems.
  • MMRV support will be provided for government actors to strategically align an integrated national GHG and methane management approach with ETF requirements.
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