Global Corruption Report

Preface.  Foreword.  Acknowledgements.  Executive Summary  1. Introduction  1.0. Defining the Challenge: Threats to Effective Climate Governance  1.1. Mapping the Climate Change and Governance Challenge: The Big Picture  2. The Climate Policy Framework: Examining the Effectiveness and Accountability of Current Processes  2.0. The Climate Policy Framework: Examining the Effectiveness and Accountability of Current Processes  2.1. From Global Power Politics to Responsible Collective Governance: The Transparency and Inclusiveness of International Climate Governance Institutions and Processes  2.2. Essential Building Blocs for Kyoto and Beyond: Agreeing on Climate Commitments at National and Regional Level  2.2.1. For Europe: Equal Access, Unequal Voice: Business and NGO Lobbying on EU Climate Policy  2.2.2. For US: US Climate Policies: A Snapshot of Lobbyist Influence  2.3. Urban Governance and Climate Change Policy  2.4. Vested or Public Interest? The Matrix of Interests and Influence in Key Emerging Climate Countries  2.4.1. India  2.4.2. Climate Policies in China: a Gradual Move Towards Ambition, More Transparency and Nascent Citizen Involvement  2.5. Climate Policies in Austria: Poor Accountability Breeds Slow Progress  3. Key Elements to Building Integrity in Decision-making  3.0. Key Elements to Building Integrity in Decision-making  3.1. Climate Science: The World is its Jury  3.2. Making Climate Governance Accountable: Reflections on what can be Learned from International Environmental Governance  3.3. The Aarhus Convention: A Blueprint for Inclusive and Accountable Climate Governance?  3.4. Civil Society and the Climate Change Process: How does Participation Compare as a Measure of Transparency?  3.5. Holding Commitment to Account: The Governance Dimension in Climate Change Measurement  3.6. Personal View: A Fresh Approach to Climate Politics?  4. Ensuring Integrity and Transparency in Climate Change Mitigation  4.0. Ensuring Integrity and Transparency in Climate Change Mitigation  4.1. Greenhouse Gas Accounting: a Foundation for Sound Climate Governance  4.2. Measuring, Reporting and Verification of NAMAs and their Support: Considering Capacity, Corruption and Commitments  4.3. The Trade-offs of Trade: Realities and Risks of Carbon Markets  4.3.1 Slovak Public See No Credit in Government's Carbon Trading  4.3.2. Permit Politics: Hungary's CO2 Allowances  4.3.3. Shortcomings and Shortcuts: Sri Lanka's Environmental Impact Assessments  4.3.4. Voluntary Carbon Markets: Successes and Shortfalls  4.3.5. Sectoral Crediting: Getting Governance Right from the Beginning  4.4. Climate Change: Corporate Change: Shifting Business Models to Towards the Climate Agenda  4.5. Policy Engagement: A Missing Link in Corporate Climate Reporting  4.5.1. Colombia: Measuring Transparency Policies and Mechanisms in Public Utilities  4.6. Enabling Green Choices: Ensuring Consumers Receive Accurate, Actionable Information on the Climate Impacts of their Consumption Choices  4.7. Could Corruption Pose a Barrier to Roll-out of Renewable Energy in North Africa?  4.7.1. Spain: Can Incentivising Solar Energy Invite Fraud?  4.8. Preventing a Resource Curse Fuelled by the Green Economy  4.8.1. Bolivia's Lithium: Opportunities and Challenges  4.9. Engineering the Earth: Considering Accountability and the Last Resort  5. Adaptation to Climate Change: Building Accountable, Sustainable Resilience  5.0. Adaptation to Climate Change: Building Accountable Sustainable Resilience  5.1. Show me the Money: Ensuring Equity, Transparency and Accountability in Adaptation Finance  5.1.1. Fast-start Funding: is There an Emerging Parallel Structure for Climate Finance?  5.1.2. Climate Change Funds and Development: How to Ensure Transparency and Access to Information on Funding Streams for Adaptation  5.2. Promoting an Effective and Transparent Use of Funds through the Adaptation Fund  5.3. Climate-proofing Development: Corruption Risks in Adaptation Infrastructure  5.3.1. Climate Change, Infrastructure and Corruption  5.3.2. Climate-proofing and Political Influence in the Philippines  5.4. Disrupting Lives: Climate Migration and Corruption  5.4.1 The Plunder of Kenya's Forests: Resettling the Settlers and Holding the Loggers Accountable  5.4.2. Climate Change Adaptation and Water Integrity: A Global Challenge to Address Local Realities  5.5. When Disaster Strikes: Corruption and Rapid Response in Climate-related Relief and Recovery  6. Forestry Governance: A Key Issue for Climate Change  6.1. Corruption: A Root Cause of Deforestation and Forest Degradation  6.1.1. Climate Change and Corruption Leave the World's Largest Mangrove Forest in Peril  6.2. Governance in the World's Tropical Forests: Where Will REDD+ Land?  6.2.1. Bosaw's: The 'Lung of Central America' Under Threat  6.3. Governance Risks for REDD+: How Weak Forest Carbon Accounting can Create Opportunities for Corruption and Fraud  6.3.1. Hypothetical Offsets â" Real Corruption? Carbon Offsets in Papua New Guinea  6.3.2. Is Norway Rocking the REDD Boat?