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Reporting Guide to Holding Governments Accountable for Climate Change Pledges
This guide was written by GIJN Resource Center Senior Advisor Toby McIntosh. Editing by Nikolia Apostolou, Alexa van Sickle, and Reed Richardson. Images via ClimateVisuals.org.
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Reporting Guide to Holding Governments Accountable for Climate Change Pledges — Introduction
The global fight against climate change depends on the actions of individual nations. So national accountability is critical.
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Reporting Guide to Holding Governments Accountable for Climate Change Pledges — Chapter 1: Country Commitments
Transparency about national commitments and performance is a critical element in the international effort to fight global warming.
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Reporting Guide to Holding Governments Accountable for Climate Change Pledges — Chapter 2: Sources for Country Plan Ratings
Exploring government promises and performance is made easier by using independent summaries that add value to the official data.
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Reporting Guide to Holding Governments Accountable for Climate Change Pledges — Chapter 3: Are Commitments Being Kept?
Be prepared for complexity. These reports are not easy reading. They contain lots of numbers, and they are steeped in bureaucratic and scientific jargon.
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Reporting Guide to Holding Governments Accountable for Climate Change Pledges — Chapter 4: UN Evaluations of Country Pledges
To find out if a country is — or isn’t — living up to its climate change promises and emissions goals, reporters must first understand what pledges the country has made.
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Reporting Guide to Holding Governments Accountable for Climate Change Pledges — Chapter 5: Alternative Sources of Country Emissions Data
The lack of national emissions data in many countries isn’t a secret and has been lamented as an impediment to public knowledge.
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Reporting Guide to Holding Governments Accountable for Climate Change Pledges — Chapter 6: Glossary
A glossary of common terms and acronyms used by the United Nations, academics, and climate activists.