This article is written by Rebecca Dobson, one of the contributors to TI’s Global Corruption Report: Climate Change, launched on 30 April 2011. As the Global Corruption Report on climate governance is launched this week, Transparency International is making a bold statement on the need for good governance to meet the challenges of climate change. […]
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Oil wealth and revolution
Today Transparency International publishes its report on the transparency of oil and gas companies. The report shows that the majority of companies do not reveal payments to governments in countries where the extract oil and gas. A good example for what this means in practice is Libya: A quarter of the country’s economy come from […]
EU bank emerges from the shadows: EIB meets with civil society
Traumatised by voter rejection in a series of referenda, EU institutions are full of existential dread about the relevance of their mission to that mythical beast ‘the European citizen’. Consequently ‘engaging with civil society’ has become the platitude du jour of eurocrats, with even those working on the most arcane technical briefs pushed blinking into the sunlight of public scrutiny.
Beyond Cancun: civil society and climate change finance
On 9 December, International Anti-corruption Day, Transparency International hosted an event at the COP 16 Climate Change conference in Cancun to discuss the role of civil society in the climate debate. Lisa Elges, TI’s climate governance programme organiser, reports on what was said and why it is important Last week’s UN Climate Change Conference in […]
In Cancun, REDD talks needs to address corruption
The United Nations climate change conference opened in Cancun last week to modest expectations. UN secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon; EU commissioner for climate action, Connie Hedegaard; and Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Christiana Figueres have all said that they do not expect a binding deal this year on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. […]
Waters still troubled: What will the COP16 deliver on transparency?
Lisa Elges, Climate Governance Programme Manager at Transparency International, reflects from Cancún on the Climate Summit- the 16th meeting of the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP16). After one week of the climate summit, clarity on what the COP 16 will deliver remains elusive. What agreements government negotiators can […]
Derogating civil responsibility: international human rights NGOs and the climate challenge
Climate change is without question a human rights issue. It already affects many of the world’s most vulnerable people, increases vulnerability and affects different groups disproportionately. It directly undermines states’ ability to provide an adequate standard of living and challenges our understanding of the right to development. The protection of human rights should therefore be […]
Climate Change, Water and Corruption
This post has been written by Birke Otto of the Water Integrity Network, a global coalition stimulating anti-corruption activities in the water sector locally, nationally and globally. As the climate talks at the COP15 open with urgent calls for action, massive funds will be mobilized to manage climate change adaptation and mitigation. If not managed […]
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