Participatory Climate Governance

Climate Governance refers to a country’s readiness to ratchet up and purposely implement transformational climate policies in order to prevent, mitigate, or adapt to the risk posed by climate change. It describes the purposeful capabilities and institutional arrangements with minimum preconditions for enabling and steering a social system towards preventing, mitigating, or adapting to the risks posed by climate change in a way that centers people.

Participatory Climate Governance is characterized by responsiveness, participation, reliability, equity, inclusiveness, efficiency, accountability, and transparency. [Responsive, participatory, reliable, equitable, inclusive, efficient, accountable and transparent governance is believed to be a key enabling factor for a just transition and peoplecentered climate action].

The enabling environment covers overall coherence (regulatory effectiveness and quality), awareness and transparency, accountability, rule of law, rights, and political liberties. It also includes a series of personal rights and guarantees (freedom of speech, social media freedom, NGO regulatory framework). A key aspect of the enabling

The participatory climate governance benchmarks are divided into three subthemes:

Coherence

Coherence refers to the efforts made to integrate the [ACE pillars/ elements ] [determinants of] [economic, social, environmental, and governance dimensions] for people-centered climate action at all stages of domestic and international policy-making. Its main objectives are to a. increase governments capacities to foster synergies and coordination across economic, social, and policy areas b. reconcile domestic policy objectives with international agreed objectives

Transparency

Transparency refers to the efforts made by governments to ensure citizens are informed about how and why public decisions are made.. [Some essential aspects for transparency include comprehensiveness, timeliness, availability, and comprehensibility of information, as well as the proactiveness of efforts to inform affected groups.] <maybe elements of quality