By Toby McIntosh The UN Environmental Programme notified governments of 1,200 of major methane emissions, but got only 15 replies, a one percent response rate,…
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By Toby McIntosh The United Nations Environmental Programme for the first time has disclosed a communication with a country about a major methane emission. It…
By Toby McIntosh The rules on transparency and participation for the new climate change Loss and Damage Fund (LDF) will be written soon. A few…
The UN Environment Programme has released a second tranche of information about methane emissions worldwide and said that data will be issued twice a month.…
By Toby McIntosh The UN Environment Programme has released data on climate-damaging methane emissions, but further promised transparency still awaits. In particular, UNEP has not…
By Toby McIntosh When read through a transparency lens, the recent UN “global stocktake” report identifies numerous information gaps related to climate change. Some of…
By Toby McIntosh The release of information about large methane emissions by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) has been delayed. The much-anticipated revelations, based…
By Toby McIntosh A new international effort to identify major methane emissions will detect at least 40-50 episodes a month and make information about them…
By Toby McIntosh In the not-to-distant future, when governments start buying and selling greenhouse gas emission credits from each other, one casualty may be transparency.…
The COP26 summit in Glasgow made headway on a number of transparency-related initiatives, agreeing on time frames for future national pledges and largely nailing down…