TRANSPARENCY

Government shares data openly and provides clear, meaningful, accurate, contextualized, and complete information for stakeholders to assess results and decisions. A government committed to transparency communicates methods, data source, calculations, assumptions, decision criteria, uncertainty, as well as processes, procedure, and assessments limitations in a clear factual, neutral, and understandable way.

Elemetns Of Quality

Accessibility. Easy and contextualized environmental information is disclosed at no cost.

Usefulness. Data is provided in complete and meaningful formats.

Timeliness. Competent authorities respond and fulfill requests as quickly as possible within a period no longer than 30 days.

APPROACHES CAPACITY ACTIONS TO ACHIEVE THIS LEVEL Legal Framework

Climate strategies. Include provisions in climate strategies for access to information held by public authorities, with limited exceptions. Pervasiveness. Access to information applies to all public authorities and civil society.

Organizational Actions

Dissemination. Publish climate-related information by request.