MOCCAE's Integrated Emissions Quantification Tool at mrv.ae is the federal platform for UAE emissions reporting. How registration works, what the tool does, and how to prepare.
The UAE Climate Change Law tells you that you must report emissions. The Integrated Emissions Quantification Tool tells you how. Launched in October 2025 and accessible at mrv.ae, the IEQT is the federal platform that turns the legal obligation into an annual workflow — and registration is the first thing designated entities need to get right.
Key Takeaways
- One federal platform: MOCCAE’s Integrated Emissions Quantification Tool (IEQT), at mrv.ae, is the central system for monitoring, reporting and verifying GHG emissions across the UAE.
- Launched October 2025: It went live at GITEX GLOBAL 2025 on 15 October 2025 as the operational core of the National MRV Transparency System.
- Registration is role-based: Access runs through an organisation account with assigned roles, authorised by your organisation’s administrators and approved by the relevant emirate-level focal point.
- A four-stage cycle: Data collection → calculation (IPCC-based factors) → verification by a MOCCAE-approved assurer → annual submission.
What the IEQT Is
On 15 October 2025, during GITEX GLOBAL in Dubai, the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment launched the Integrated Emissions Quantification Tool (IEQT) — the operational heart of the UAE’s National Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) Transparency System.
The system is the electronic platform mandated by Article 6(2) of Federal Decree-Law 11 of 2024, which required the Ministry to establish “an electronic system for emission measurement mechanisms.” It is aligned with Article 13 of the Paris Agreement — the Enhanced Transparency Framework — and is described by MOCCAE as the region’s first integrated national platform combining greenhouse-gas and air-pollutant monitoring.
In plain terms: if the Climate Change Law is the obligation, the IEQT is the place you discharge it.
How Registration Works
Access to the IEQT is not a single anonymous login. It is structured around organisations and roles, which matters for how you set it up internally.
The registration flow at mrv.ae asks for personal information (name, email, phone), an organisation selection, and a role selection — the roles a given user needs for their work. Crucially, an individual’s access has to be authorised by their organisation’s administrators, and the organisation itself receives approval from the relevant emirate-level focal point before reporting can proceed.
What this means in practice. Someone in your organisation needs to be the administrator who authorises other users. Get that ownership decided before anyone tries to register — a common early stumble is multiple people creating uncoordinated accounts for the same entity. Designate the administrator, then have data-providers and validators register under that organisation with appropriate roles.
The practical sequence most entities follow: register the organisation and create the administrator account; assign roles for data provision and validation; receive approval from the emirate-level focal point; then begin the emissions workflow.
The Four-Stage Reporting Workflow
The IEQT consolidates what used to be a fragmented, months-long process into a single guided cycle. There are four stages.
1. Data collection. Gather activity data across your in-scope emission sources — fuel combustion, purchased electricity, process emissions, and so on. The boundary you set here determines the integrity of everything downstream, so it is worth getting the organisational and operational boundaries right before you input anything.
2. Calculation. The tool applies IPCC-aligned emission factors, converts activity data into emissions expressed in tonnes of CO₂ equivalent, and categorises results by Scope 1 (direct) and Scope 2 (purchased energy). Methodologies follow IPCC guidance, supplemented by ISO 14064 and GHG Protocol principles where applicable.
3. Verification. Before final submission, your inventory must be independently assured by a MOCCAE-authorised verifier, who assesses data accuracy, methodology adherence and completeness. The verifier issues a verification statement — this is a prerequisite, not an optional add-on.
4. Submission. Upload the verified inventory, reduction plans and supporting documentation through the platform ahead of the annual deadline. The system confirms receipt and tracks the submission.
What the Platform Reports On
The IEQT is built to capture more than a single carbon number. It tracks the full basket of greenhouse gases, classifies emissions by scope and source, and — because it sits inside the Paris Agreement transparency framework — feeds the national inventory the UAE submits internationally. For a reporting entity, the relevant point is that the granularity expected is real: scope-separated, gas-disaggregated, methodologically documented data, not a headline figure.
This also coordinates national and local authorities in one environment, which is why the emirate-level focal-point approval sits in the registration flow. Your federal report and your emirate’s oversight are designed to run through the same system.
How This Connects to the Two Laws
The IEQT is the tool; the obligations come from the legislation. Holding the three apart is essential:
- Federal Decree-Law 11 of 2024 creates the duty to measure and report, applies to all Sources including free zones, and triggers MRV obligations on designation. The IEQT is the system it mandated.
- Cabinet Resolution 67 of 2024 governs the National Register for Carbon Credits and the 500,000-tonne “Huge Carbon Emission Entity” threshold. Its verification requirements (ISO 14064 / 14065, Ministry-approved verifier) align with what the IEQT workflow expects.
- The IEQT platform itself is where designated entities actually file.
An entity over the 0.5 MtCO₂e threshold is dealing with all three at once: the Decree-Law obligation, the NRCC registration, and the IEQT submission. A smaller designated Source may only touch the Decree-Law and the IEQT. Knowing which apply to you is the first scoping question.
ESGweise Insight: The Boundary Decision Is the Whole Game
In practice, the stage where reporting goes wrong is not submission — it is the very first boundary decision in data collection. Whether you report on an operational-control, financial-control or equity-share basis determines which facilities are in your inventory, and the IEQT will faithfully calculate whatever boundary you feed it. A wrong or inconsistent boundary produces a clean-looking report that fails verification, or worse, passes verification and then diverges from your NRCC consolidation approach.
Decide the consolidation basis once, document it, and apply it consistently across your Decree-Law reporting, your NRCC inventory, and your IEQT submission. The entities that treat these as one coherent data exercise — rather than three separate filings — are the ones whose numbers reconcile under scrutiny.
A second, quieter point: the IEQT reduces preparation time, not data-quality time. The tool makes calculation and submission faster. It does nothing to improve the activity data you put in. If your underlying metering, fuel records and electricity data are weak, a slick platform just produces a weak number faster. Fix the data layer first.
Getting Ready
If you expect to be designated — or you are over the NRCC threshold and already are — the no-regret moves are straightforward: decide your organisational administrator and roles before registering at mrv.ae; lock your consolidation boundary; run a baseline inventory so you know your scope-separated numbers; and engage a MOCCAE-approved verifier early, because the approved-provider pool is still thin and verification is on the critical path to submission.
Is your emissions data ready for the IEQT workflow — and is your boundary consistent across all three UAE climate instruments? ESGweise builds verification-ready GHG inventories and reporting and provides MOCCAE-aligned assurance for GCC institutions. [email protected] to get your MRV reporting audit-ready.