Key Highlights: By the end of this year all countries have to submit their first biennial transparency reports under the Paris Agreement. COP29 will push for all countries to meet this deadline. However, this is a challenging goal to meet for many developing countries. The risk is that reporting becomes a ‘tick box’ exercise whereContinue reading “COP29 and the Politics of Transparency: Four Crucial Issues to Watch”
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TRANSGOV NWO-Impact Explorer Project
An Academic-Practitioner Dialogue on the sidelines of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) June negotiating session in Bonn, 2024 The TRANSGOV team was in Bonn in June 2024 to organize an academic-practitioner dialogue bringing together climate transparency negotiators from Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to advance the aims of our recently awarded NWO-impactContinue reading “TRANSGOV NWO-Impact Explorer Project”
Climate transparency at COP28: What is (back/soon-not-anymore) on the agenda?
Various transparency related negotiations and events are on the agenda for COP28. In this blogpost I provide a brief overview of four key agenda items. With the transition to the enhanced transparency framework in 2024 around the corner, negotiations at this COP provide an opportunity to shape the new and revisit the old. 1. Continue reading “Climate transparency at COP28: What is (back/soon-not-anymore) on the agenda?”
Transparency at COP27: Five key outcomes
Before COP27 we published this blogpost outlining 5 key processes related to transparency to follow. This blogpost reflects on the key outcomes. 1. The voluntary review of adaptation (and loss and damage) information: agreed! As we reported in our pre-COP27 blog, under current transparency rules, there is no provision for technical review of information submittedContinue reading “Transparency at COP27: Five key outcomes”
Transparency at COP27: follow these five processes
COP27 is around the corner. What to expect for transparency negotiations? At first glance, it may seem like intensive transparency negotiations are now a thing of the past. The rules for the Enhanced Transparency Framework of the Paris Agreement are described by the Modalities, procedures and guidelines from Katowice and the reporting guidance from Glasgow.Continue reading “Transparency at COP27: follow these five processes “
Capacity building for climate transparency: A database and dashboard of CBIT projects
Capacity building for climate transparency is generally understood as a neutral means to ensure all countries have the capacity to report information to the UNFCCC. However, an earlier TRANSGOV article problematized this proposition and highlighted that capacity building may in practice steer the type of transparency generated by countries and influence politically contested discussions overContinue reading “Capacity building for climate transparency: A database and dashboard of CBIT projects”
An assessment of capacity building for climate transparency under the UNFCCC
This blog post is based on the recently published article in Climate Policy by Susanne Konrad, Max van Deursen & Aarti Gupta Elaborate transparency systems are now at the core of the 2015 Paris Agreement, with the assumption that this will enhance accountability, trust, and greater climate policy ambition. With transparency becoming ever more central, much attentionContinue reading “An assessment of capacity building for climate transparency under the UNFCCC”
Transparency of (in)Action? Eight key matters to follow in the COP26 transparency negotiations
COP26 is just around the corner. What to expect? Key negotiation items on the agenda are common timeframes for NDCs, market mechanisms, climate finance and transparency. Indeed, transparency is one of the most contentious negotiation items, with talks on this item closed to observers at the preceding intersessional session in May-June 2021. This blogpost outlinesContinue reading “Transparency of (in)Action? Eight key matters to follow in the COP26 transparency negotiations”
Transparency Adherence Indices: A first step in assessing country compliance with global climate transparency requirements
This blog post is based on the recently published article in Climate Policy by Romain Weikmans & Aarti Gupta One of the few legally binding obligations of the 2015 Paris Agreement is for countries to be transparent to each other about what they are doing with regard to climate change. This can include sharing information about domesticContinue reading “Transparency Adherence Indices: A first step in assessing country compliance with global climate transparency requirements”
Global Momentum for Transparency? A new Initiative for the Enhanced Transparency Framework
This year has been an unusual year. While the Covid-19 pandemic has forced countries around the globe into lock-downs and led to a major economic downturn, 2020 was meant to be the year for crucial global climate action. Countries that are Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement were supposed to communicate new or updated NationallyContinue reading “Global Momentum for Transparency? A new Initiative for the Enhanced Transparency Framework”
