Items tagged:
Transparency
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Reflections on Katowice – where does the Paris Agreement stand now?
IIED's director Andrew Norton reflects on the outcomes of the UN climate talks in Katowice
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Seeing clearly: transitioning to transparency at COP24
As climate envoys prepare to negotiate the ‘rulebook’ that brings the Paris Agreement to life, Illari Aragon argues the importance of its new transparency framework and explores some of the challenges negotiators face in realising it
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Webinar: What does successful adaptation look like, and what do we want to measure in the context of adaptation, national development and SDGs?
IIED organised a webinar on 28 June 2018 to discuss how developing country governments can assess adaptation actions to inform national planning and international reporting.
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G8 summit: A revolutionary agenda
The G8 leaders meet in Northern Ireland on June 17, with the UK in the chair, and trade, tax, and transparency as the text. It’s a revolutionary agenda, if seen through to the end.
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IIED urges G8 to see transparency as critical step on road to accountability
Information alone is not enough. People need to be able to access and use information and this is something the G8 leaders can promote and support in concrete ways.
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Bamako baroke – talking politics and drinking tea
People in Bamako, Mali support different politicians — but share remarkably similar political priorities.
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Global land rush: Contract transparency is crucial, but not enough
Greater transparency was a key theme at the World Bank land conference last week. Transparency is critical, but without greater accountability to local communities it is not enough.
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Growth of China’s 'green public sphere' brings hope and opportunity
It all started with a stroll. In 2007, residents of Xiamen, in Fujian province, decided they didn’t want a company that made a harmful chemical called paraxylene in their city. Using text messages they arranged peaceful demonstrations. The strolls soon spread into vast street protests and before long the local government had responded to their calls and relocated the chemical plant.
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The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: "No more hanky panky"
A global initiative requiring public reporting of revenues from extractive industries could go further
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The misleading metrics of microcredit
Microcredit – the distribution of small loans to low-income sections of society — is one of the more fashionable tools to appear on the international development scene in recent years.
