• News 26 September 2022 The future of climate action transparency What are the next steps for climate action transparency, and how can we use transparency to create a better and more sustainable world for all? Transparency experts and practitioners from around the world attempted to answer these questions and many more at the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) Community Meetings in Copenhagen’s UN City last week. The meeting focused on countries’ need for easy-to-use tools to effectively use data and information to drive the implementation of…
• News 20 September 2022 Transparency community calls for adaptation There is a need for more tools, methodologies and actions when it comes to transparency in climate change adaptation. This was one of the main messages coming out of the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) Community Meeting held in Copenhagen’s UN City. The meeting was co-hosted with UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre and gathered representatives from more than 25 developing countries (with others joining online) to share their expertise and experiences from implementing transparency…
• News 22 July 2022 China strengthens its implementation of ETF Home to around 1.4 billion people and covering a vast expanse across Asia, China is a diverse country with a complex climate characterized by a monsoon zone in the East, an arid Northwest region and alpine-like weather along the Tibetan plateau. With these different climate conditions, come differing challenges: the concentrated rain of a monsoon can cause floods, storms and typhoons; the lack of surface water in a continental dry climate could lead to a fragile environment; and the frequent…
• News 15 July 2022 Zimbabwe on track to better climate action transparency Zimbabwe has finished the first phase of the country’s work with the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT), and is now on track to better collect data key to attaining national climate change goals. The data will be crucial in mobilizing resources for implementation of Zimbabwe’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement, and for tracking and evaluating implementation, as well as assessing impacts of policies and actions. “The support received from ICAT…
• News 23 May 2022 Morocco starts first subnational monitoring, reporting and verification system Morocco’s Climate Change Policy of 2014 embedded a subnational approach in national climate action, encouraging implementation of the country’s National Plan to Combat Global Warming at the local level to better account for regional contexts. The Souss Massa region, placed centrally in the country’s long land profile, has since established itself as a frontrunner in the implementation of pilot climate action projects. “The National Plan to Combat Global Warming explicitly recommends that…
• News 23 March 2022 Sustainable development successfully included in Article 6 rulebook With the Glasgow Climate Pact adopted at COP26, the Article 6 component of the Paris Agreement rulebook - a long-time outstanding hurdle - was finally finished. For the Sustainable Development Initiative (SDI) the sustainable development provisions in the Article 6 decisions marked the successful conclusion of six years' focus on the negotiations. SDI position papers and observer submissions to promote sustainable development found their way to the final rulebook, paving the way for…
• News 21 December 2021 Emissions scenarios for Brazilian climate action In February 2020, the now completed second phase of the Brazil Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) project was initiated, focusing on the sub-national level. It applied technical work undertaken at the national level under phase 1 of the project to the state level. Work under this second phase adopted the ICAT guidance for assessing impacts of non-state and subnational actions. Phase 1 of ICAT in Brazil has since March 2018, supported the development of a methodology to calculate…
• News 20 December 2021 New report on private sector adaptation reporting in the Global Stocktake As an essential feature of the Paris Agreement’s built-in process, the Global Stocktake (GST) was set up to take stock of the overall progress made in achieving the Paris Agreement’s long-term goals, including the Global Goal on Adaptation. Climate change is already affecting the operations of private sector, including their ability to generate profits. As a key member of the broad-based coalition of actors required to mitigate and adapt to climate change, it is important that the contributions…

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