Iraq Digital MRV is a working demonstration of a proposed system for monitoring, reporting and verifying greenhouse-gas emissions across Federal Iraq and the Kurdistan Region. Each authority keeps custody of its own data. The nation keeps one record.
Access is by invitation from the presenting team.
Gas-fired power station, Erbil Governorate
October 2026
41,280tonnes CO₂e
IRQ-FAC-0001 · R1
Counted once in the national total
Under the Paris Agreement, Iraq reports its emissions every two years, and those reports are reviewed by international experts. The figures have to come from somewhere: power stations, refineries, oil and gas fields and cement plants under two administrations, measured the same way and added up once.
The Enhanced Transparency Framework asks for a national inventory, NDC progress and Article 6 information in each Biennial Transparency Report, with data a technical expert review can trace to its source.
Federal ministries and the Kurdistan Regional Government each oversee their own facilities. The national inventory needs both, without either side giving up control of its data.
When a figure passes through several offices it can be entered twice, or not at all. A national system has to know which version is the one that counts.
Transferring emission reductions abroad needs national authorisation, corresponding adjustments and a record that buyers and UN reviewers can audit.
The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism prices the carbon in imported cement, steel, aluminium and fertilisers. Exporters need verified product data, kept separate from the national inventory.
Data moves up through the people responsible for it. At each level it is checked, approved and handed on as a signed, versioned package. Nobody retypes it, and nobody above can quietly change it.
A power station, refinery, field or cement plant records fuel use, production and flaring under an approved monitoring plan, with meter readings and evidence attached.
Quality checks run automatically. Then the responsible reviewers approve the report before it moves on.
KRG Regional Node
Reviews and approves Kurdistan Region facilities, and keeps the regional source record.
Federal sector nodes
Review and approve federal facilities, sector by sector.
Signed packages arrive at the National MRV Hub, which checks them against national methods and can query, reject or accept them. It never edits regional data.
Each facility and period has exactly one nationally accepted record, with a persistent national ID and a trail back to the meter reading.
Accepted records feed the National Inventory Report, the Biennial Transparency Report and NDC tracking.
Verifiers sit outside the approval chain. They sample evidence, test calculations and give an opinion on facility and national figures, but cannot approve or edit them.
Federal facilities
Power · refining · oil & gas · cement
Federal Sector Nodes
Sector review & approval
KRG facilities
Power · refining · oil & gas · cement
KRG Regional Node
Regional QA/QC & approval
keeps regional source record
versioned packages
National MRV Hub
Independent verification
Separate assurance lane — not part of approvals
These are not policy statements. The server refuses anything that breaks them, and in the demo you are welcome to try.
Each figure is accepted once, into a single canonical record with a persistent national ID. There are no parallel national accounts.
Where to see it: National Hub and canonical records
The Kurdistan Region keeps its regional source record and evidence. The nation receives what it needs to report, mapped to national IDs.
Where to see it: KRG Regional Node
Every package is hashed and carries an idempotency key. Sending the same package twice returns the first acknowledgement and changes nothing.
Where to see it: Scenario 3: idempotent resend
Only the national Article 6 authority can authorise transfers or apply corresponding adjustments. Any other attempt is refused and logged.
Where to see it: Scenario 5: Article 6 boundary
Verifiers cannot approve or edit what they verify, and a verifier with a declared conflict of interest cannot be assigned.
Where to see it: Scenario 6: independent assurance
Submitted data is never overwritten. A correction creates a new revision, and every action, refusals included, is written to a hash-chained log anyone can check.
Where to see it: Audit log and chain check
Six guided scenarios run the real workflow on example data. On-screen guidance switches roles as the work changes hands, so you see each decision from the desk where it is made.
Every person, facility and figure in the demo is an example.
A KRG power station’s monthly report goes from data entry through quality checks, regional approval and transmission to national acceptance.
The national reviewer queries a figure. The region issues a revised version, and the original stays on record, marked as superseded.
The same package is sent twice. The Hub recognises it and acknowledges a duplicate instead of counting it again.
The link between nodes fails. Transmission retries on its own, with a manual export fallback that keeps the audit trail intact.
A regional user tries to authorise an Article 6 transfer. The system refuses and explains why only the national authority can.
A verifier reviews the evidence, raises a finding and issues a qualified opinion, separately from the approval chain.
Each visitor works in a private sandbox. Nothing you do affects anyone else, and you can reset it at any time.
Sign in to start a scenarioThe three plans are stages of one platform, not three competing systems. Each stage keeps the same governance, data model and audit trail and builds on them, and each must pass an agreed gate before the next begins.
Plan 1 ReadinessMonths 0–18
Plan 2 Targeted upgradesMonths 12–36
Plan 3 Selective scaleMonths 24–60
Governance, common templates, a controlled method and factor library and a secure portal, using the data Iraq already has. It needs no AI and no plant integration.
Better data where it matters most: key categories and major emitters, beginning with those that pass the selection gate.
Advanced measurement and automation, only where the value justifies the cost and never as a requirement for every sector.
Iraq Digital MRV was designed and built by an independent team of climate-transparency and software specialists, as a proposal for discussion with Iraqi federal and Kurdistan Region authorities and their international partners.
No. It is an independent demonstration of a proposed design. It is not operated, adopted or endorsed by the federal government, the Kurdistan Regional Government or any ministry.
No. Every facility, person, figure and emission factor is an example. Factors are labelled DEMO and must not be used for real reporting.
Access is by invitation. If you work on climate transparency in Iraq, or with a partner organisation, ask the presenting team for an account.
No. The KRG Regional Node reviews and approves its own facilities and keeps the regional source record and evidence. The National Hub can query or reject a package, but it never edits regional data.
Each facility and period has one canonical national record. Packages carry a content hash and an idempotency key, so a resent package is recognised and acknowledged without being counted again.
No. It shows how an Article 6 workflow would sit beside the inventory, with sovereign decisions reserved to the national authority. Units in the demo are simulated serials, not credits.
It keeps product-level emissions for goods such as cement as a separate ledger, with its own boundary, so exporters can document embedded emissions without mixing them into the national inventory or Article 6 accounts.
No. The foundation runs on web forms, controlled uploads and deterministic checks. Metering, system links and analytics are later upgrades, each behind its own decision gate, and analytics only ever advise.
No. It prepares illustrative inventory and transparency outputs to show how accepted records would feed them. Official submissions remain the responsibility of the national authorities.
Sign in and run the first scenario: an example KRG power station’s monthly report travels from the meter to the national total in a few minutes.
No sign-up. Accounts are issued by invitation.