ABSTRACT

The global response to climate change will demand unprecedented international cooperation, deep economic transformation and resource transfers at a significant scale. Corruption threatens to jeopardise these efforts.

Transparency International's Global Corruption Report: Climate Change is the first publication to comprehensively explore such corruption risks. More than fifty leading experts and practitioners contribute, covering four key areas:

  • governance: investigating major governance challenges towards tackling climate change
  • mitigating climate change: reducing greenhouse gas emissions with transparency and accountability
  • adapting to climate change: identifying corruption risks in climate-proofing development, financing and implementation of adaptation
  • forestry governance: responding to the corruption challenges plaguing the forestry sector, and how these challenges need to be integrated into current international strategies to halt deforestation and promote reforestation.

The Global Corruption Report: Climate Change provides essential policy analysis to help policy-makers, practitioners and other stakeholders understand these risks and develop effective responses at a critical point in time when the main architecture for climate governance is being developed.

part 1|21 pages

Introduction

chapter 1.0|13 pages

Defining the challenge

Threats to effective climate governance

chapter 1.1|6 pages

Mapping the climate change and governance challenge

The big picture

part 2|52 pages

The climate policy framework

chapter 2.0|3 pages

The climate policy framework

Examining the effectiveness and accountability of current processes

chapter 2.1|10 pages

From global power politics to responsible collective governance

The transparency and inclusiveness of international climate governance institutions and processes

chapter 2.2|12 pages

Essential building blocs for Kyoto and beyond

Agreeing on climate commitments at national and regional level

chapter 2.2.1|6 pages

Equal access, unequal voice

Business and NGO lobbying on EU climate policy

chapter 2.2.2|5 pages

US climate policies

A snapshot of lobbyist influence

chapter 2.4.2|8 pages

Climate policies in China

A gradual move towards ambition, more transparency and nascent citizen involvement

chapter 2.5|4 pages

Climate policies in Austria

Poor accountability breeds slow progress

part 3|25 pages

Key elements to building integrity in decision-making

chapter 3.1|4 pages

Climate science

The world is its jury

chapter 3.2|4 pages

Making climate governance accountable

Reflections on what can be learned from international environmental governance

chapter 3.3|2 pages

The Aarhus Convention

A blueprint for inclusive and accountable climate governance?

chapter 3.4|4 pages

Civil society and the climate change process

How does participation compare as a measure of transparency?

chapter 3.5|4 pages

Holding commitment to account

The governance dimension in climate change indices

chapter 3.6|3 pages

Personal view

A fresh approach to climate politics?

part 4|114 pages

Ensuring integrity and transparency in climate change mitigation

chapter 4.1|13 pages

Greenhouse gas accounting

A foundation for sound climate governance

chapter 4.2|10 pages

Measuring, reporting and verification of NAMAs and their support

Considering capacity, corruption and commitments

chapter 4.3|15 pages

The trade-offs of trade

Realities and risks of carbon markets

chapter 4.3.2|3 pages

Permit politics

Hungary's CO2 allowances

chapter 4.3.3|4 pages

Shortcomings and short cuts

Sri Lanka's environmental impact assessments

chapter 4.3.4|7 pages

Voluntary carbon markets

Successes and shortfalls

chapter 4.3.5|4 pages

Sectoral crediting

Getting governance right from the beginning

chapter 4.4|4 pages

Climate change, corporate change

Shifting business models towards the climate agenda

chapter 4.5|5 pages

Policy engagement

A missing link in corporate climate reporting

chapter 4.5.1|5 pages

Colombia

Measuring transparency policies and mechanisms in public utilities

chapter 4.6|7 pages

Enabling green choices

Ensuring consumers receive accurate, actionable information on the climate impacts of their consumption choices

chapter 4.7.1|3 pages

Spain

Can incentivizing solar energy invite fraud?

chapter 4.8.1|4 pages

Bolivia's lithium

Opportunities and challenges

chapter 4.9|4 pages

Engineering the Earth

Considering accountability and the last resort

part 5|79 pages

Adaptation to climate change

chapter 5.0|3 pages

Adaptation to climate change

Building accountable, sustainable resilience

chapter 5.1|14 pages

Show me the money

Ensuring equity, transparency and accountability in adaptation finance

chapter 5.1.1|5 pages

Fast-start funding

Is there an emerging parallel structure for climate finance?

chapter 5.1.2|7 pages

Climate change funds and development

How to ensure transparency and access to information on funding streams for adaptation

chapter 5.3|8 pages

Climate-proofing development

Corruption risks in adaptation infrastructure

chapter 5.4|10 pages

Disrupting lives

Climate migration and corruption

chapter 5.4.1|4 pages

The plunder of Kenya's forests

Resettling the settlers and holding the loggers accountable

chapter 5.4.2|4 pages

Climate change adaptation and water integrity

A global challenge to address local realities

chapter 5.5|6 pages

When disaster strikes

Corruption and rapid response in climate-related relief and recovery

part 6|55 pages

Forestry governance

chapter 6.0|2 pages

Forestry governance

A key issue for climate change

chapter 6.1|13 pages

Corruption

A root cause of deforestation and forest degradation

chapter 6.2|12 pages

Governance in the world's tropical forests

Where will REDD+ land?

chapter 6.2.1|2 pages

Bosawás

The ‘Lung of Central America' under threat

chapter 6.3|16 pages

Governance risks for REDD+

How weak forest carbon accounting can create opportunities for corruption and fraud

chapter 6.3.1|3 pages

Hypothetical offsets

Carbon trading and land rights in Papua New Guinea

chapter 6.3.2|2 pages

Is Norway rocking the REDD boat?