Transcript Is Transparency a Luxury in the Face of Climate

Is Transparency a Luxury in the
Face of Climate Change
(and the Economic Crisis)?
Joseph Foti
World Resources Institute
Americas Regional Conference on the
Right of Access to Information
- April 28, 2009 -
No.
Mitigation
• Measured, reportable, and verifiable
• Regulation of carbon markets
• Civil society as third party verification
• A2I and participation as safeguard for
environmental integrity
Adaptation
Over-simplified
0
100
incremental benefit from a given
activity due to climate change
Resilience
Coping
Resilience
Beyond Resilience:
Development
strength of government
Government is Important to
Development
I
II
III
IV
scope of government
Government is Important to
Adaptation
• Information provision
• Strategic Planning
• Regulation and management
• Provision of public goods
What is being done?
Adaptation Funding:
LDCF, ODA
Int’l
National
Programme / Sectoral
Project / local
Household
Copenhagen 2010
NAPAs
Agency policies
Sectoral Action Plans
Project level interventions
Individual initiative
Transparency and Accountability
in Adaptation Planning:
Approach
• NAPAs: 15 countries
• 137 proposed projects
• Institution-building, accountability,
transparency
Transparency and Accountability
in Adaptation Planning: Findings
• Construction and training emphasis
• General lack of information about
expansion and strengthening of institutional
mandates.
• Total lack of measures to improve
institutional transparency and accountability.
What should be done?
• Establishing language in Copenhagen for:
- Investment in institution-building
- Minimum transparency and participation (Aarhus,
Espoo)
• Support for independent CSO monitoring of
government accountability
• Maintenance and continued investment of existing
national safeguard mechanisms
- EIA, SEA, emergency info, and PRTR