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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