The Transformative Capability of Transparency in Global Environmental Governance
The Transformative Capability of Transparency in Global Environmental Governance
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全球环境治理透明度的变革能力
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
J. Roberts
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作者：
D. Ciplet;K. Adams;R. Weikmans;J. Roberts
我们开发并应用了一个新的理论框架来评估环境治理透明度的变革能力。我们的框架表明，随着与透明度有关的规范得到承认并转化为问责机制，随着这些机制得到遵守，效果会级联，并对透明度改变不平等关系的能力产生重大影响。利用《联合国气候变化框架公约》中的气候融资案例，我们发现，虽然在治理架构中承认了支持透明度的各种规范，但这些规范转化为问责机制的力度很弱，各国披露的信息往往不透明。这表明，仅仅注重提高透明度不可能足以实现充分和公平的气候制度。此外，透明度应被视为对不平等条件的政治冲突的一个领域，不同的联盟为了各自的利益而不同地使用透明度。
We develop and apply a new theoretical framework for assessing the transformative capability of transparency in environmental governance. Our framework suggests that as norms related to transparency are recognized and translated into accountability mechanisms, and as these mechanisms are complied with, effects cascade and substantially influence the ability of transparency to transform relationships of inequality. Utilizing the case of climate finance in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, we find that while a variety of norms underpinning transparency are recognized within the governance architecture, their translation into accountability mechanisms has been weak, and information disclosed by countries is often opaque. This suggests that a focus on enhanced transparency is unlikely to be sufficient for realizing a climate regime that is adequate and equitable. Moreover, transparency should be seen as a terrain of political conflict over the conditions of inequality, employed differently by various coalitions to benefit their respective interests.