Published: 19 July 2017
Increased transparency, accountability and integrity are pre-requisites to ensure effectiveness in the implementation of adaptation and mitigation actions to fight climate change. As developed countries pledged to provide ‘new and additional’ finance to cope with adverse effect of climate change, the volume of climate finance is likely to increase for the use of developing countries which are at the receiving end of impact of climate change. On the other hand, countries that are adversely affected by global climate change also happen to be widely affected by governance deficit and corruption which may turn out to be a predicament against the expected level of climate funds to these countries.
