1. 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 -

2. No.

4. Mitigation Measured, reportable, and verifiable Regulation of carbon markets Civil society as third party verification A2I and participation as safeguard for environmental integrity

6. Adaptation Over-simplified incremental benefit from a given activity due to climate change 0100

7. Resilience Coping Resilience Beyond Resilience: Development

8. Government is Important to Development III IIIIV scope of government strength of government

9. Government is Important to Adaptation Information provision Strategic Planning Regulation and management Provision of public goods

10. What is being done? Int’l National Programme / Sectoral Project / local Household Adaptation Funding: LDCF, ODA Copenhagen 2010 Project level interventions Individual initiative Sectoral Action Plans NAPAs Agency policies

11. Transparency and Accountability in Adaptation Planning: Approach NAPAs: 15 countries 137 proposed projects Institution-building, accountability, transparency

12. 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.

14. 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