Transparency and Accountability in Multilateral Climate Politics

This chapter analyzes the shifting dynamics of state-to-state accountability in the multilateral climate regime established under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Our central concern is with exploring whether evolving accountability mechanisms, centered on reporting and review, can both make visible and enhance climate action in this contested multilateral context. In a widely acclaimed development, countries adopted a new agreement in Paris in December 2015 for the post-2020 phase of collective action to address climate change. The Paris Agreement institutionalizes a pledge-and-review approach to climate change action. Under this approach, transparency of action and (financial, technological, and capacity-building) support is becoming an ever more central component of multilateral climate governance, with an “enhanced transparency framework,” consisting of reporting and review arrangements, designed to be one of the key pillars of the Paris Agreement.

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Gupta, A., & van Asselt, H. (2019). Transparency and accountability in multilateral climate politics. In S. Park & T. Kramarz (Eds.), Global Environmental Governance and the Accountability Trap (Chapter 2). The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11709.003.0007