Influencing policy making
Countries need reliable data on greenhouse gas emissions to develop effective climate policies and meet their reporting commitments under the Paris Agreement. It is important to note that influencing policy is one of the areas where evidence of the impact is likely to happen after the closure of the ICAT-supported project. The two examples provided here - Belize and Cambodia - relate to projects that closed in 2022. However, the results are continuing to influence policy making, and therefore these examples are included here. Through the two ICAT projects, Belize and Cambodia have successfully improved their processes for collecting and analysing emissions data to build more robust transparency frameworks, allowing better informed policymaking.
To effectively address climate change, countries need data: on greenhouse gas emissions and removals, how their adaptation and mitigation activities are affecting those, and how the activities are affecting socio-economic development. This robust, reliable and comprehensive data can also be used to inform policy making on climate change and related issues.
A draft climate change bill for Belize
