Access to information (articles 6.a.ii and 12.10)

The Parties shall promote and facilitate at the national and, as appropriate, subregional and regional levels, Public access to information on climate change and its effects.

Subject to paragraph 9 above, and without prejudice to the ability of any Party to make public its communication at any time, the secretariat shall make communications by Parties under this Article publicly available at the time they are submitted to the Conference of the Parties.

Information Exchange and the establishment of an emissions registry (article 4)

All Parties, taking into account their common but differentiated responsibilities shall develop, periodically update, publish and make available to the Conference of the Parties, national inventories of anthropogenic emissions. Additionally, they shall formulate, implement, publish and regularly update national and, where appropriate, regional programmes containing measures to mitigate climate change. Parties shall also promote and cooperate in the full, open and prompt exchange of relevant scientific, technological, technical, socio-economic and legal information related to the climate system and climate change, and to the economic and social consequences of various response strategies.

Public participation (articles 4.1.i and 6.a.iii)

The Parties shall promote and faciliatete public participation in addressing climate change and its effects and developing adequate responses. The Parties shall also encourage the widest participation possible, including that of non-governmental organizations in education, training and public awareness related to climate change.