• News 3 December 2021 COP26 marks successful end of transparency campaign You can't manage or improve what you do not measure and track. This was the main message, when the #Data4BetterClimateAction campaign wrapped up with a COP26 event ending almost a year of campaign for transparency in climate action Transparency is the backbone of the Paris Agreement. By having sound data and information systems in place, countries across the world will be able to better design, implement and track their NDCs and long-term strategies. “During this COP26, there is an urgent need…
• News 29 October 2021 Methodologies for supporting Costa Rica’s climate aspirations The Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) has just concluded a second phase of implementation in Costa Rica, developing guidance for assessing the sustainable development and transformational change impacts of climate change actions. Such guidance is developed with the goal of integrating monitoring of sustainable development and transformation change impacts in the National Climate Change Monitoring System (SINAMECC). To develop the guidance documents, Costa Rica took as a starting…
• News 10 September 2021 Cambodia uses transparency to create policies for national demands and international standards To help aid the effective implementation of the Paris Agreement and tracking of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), UNEP DTU Partnership, through the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT), has been supporting the government of Cambodia to enhance its transparency framework. Building on the success of the first project phase, which helped develop a Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) system in the renewable energy sector, UNEP DTU Partnership and ICAT are supporting…
• News 8 September 2021 Climate Finance training - transparency and reporting workshop Last week 30 participants from Panama including the Minister of Energy, national bank representatives and technical teams from the Panamanian ministry of environment as well as NDC counterparts in other ministries, joined the climate finance training of The Climate Action Enhancement Package (CAEP), facilitated by UNEP DTU Partnership experts. Through a webinar followed by two workshops, the training covered introductions, discussions, and group work on concepts such as reporting methodologies,…
• News 17 August 2021 ETF e-learning course kicks off More than 60 participants representing over 20 African countries started the Climate Transparency E-learning Course this week. Taking place from the 16th of August to the 1st of October, the course aims to support developing countries to boost national capacity to implement the Enhanced Transparency Framework (EFT) under the Paris Agreement. In particular, it will help countries to assess and develop mitigation policies, in a way that will advance domestic and international climate objectives…
• News 9 July 2021 Pilot studies of transformational impact show the extent of climate policy ambition Four pilot cases have showed how looking at climate action policies through a Transformational Change lens can yield new insights into what works and why. The four cases cover different levels, sectors and stakeholders, and have used a new methodology, developed by UNEP DTU Partnership experts, to assess both new and emerging climate policies. The Transformational Change Methodology is a stepwise approach to determine the extent to which a policy is truly transformational in terms of delivering…
• News 17 June 2021 Now available: Capacity building modules for transparency It just got easier to use the series of Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) Policy Assessment Guides with four new capacity building modules – Introductory guide, Sustainable development, Transformational change and Stakeholder participation –  to introduce the guides and let users interact and explore cases and carry out exercises. The capacity building modules build on UNEP DTU Partnership’s expertise in developing and using the ICAT…
• News 28 May 2021 Kenya shares transparency experiences with Mozambique In the first of a series of capacity building workshop on climate action transparency, lessons learned from Kenya were shared with institutional stakeholders from Mozambique The workshop was organised through the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) and focused on stakeholder participation in setting up data transparency systems and regulations. It was based on experience and results from Kenya, where UNEP DTU Partnership has facilitated the use of the ICAT Stakeholder…

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