Authors
Aarti Gupta, Michael Mason
Publication date
2016/2/1
Source
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Volume
18
Pages
82-90
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- We identify four rationales driving uptake of transparency in climate governance.
- We label these democratization, technocratization, marketization and privatization.
- These rationales shape, we argue, the scope and practices of climate disclosure.
- Technocratization and privatization often trump democratization and marketization.
- Transparency's promise to enhance accountability or sustainability is thus reduced.
Transparency is increasingly evoked within public and private climate governance arrangements as a key means to enhance accountability and improve environmental outcomes. We review assumed links between transparency, accountability and environmental sustainability here, by identifying four rationales underpinning uptake of transparency in governance. We label these democratization, technocratization, marketization and privatization, and assess how they shape the scope and practices of …
Scholar articles
A Gupta, M Mason - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2016