also while many parties have made significant improvements in recent years to their domestic measurement reporting and verification systems further rampingup of capacity is needed in many developing countries in order to be ready to implement the enhanced transparency provisions under the paris agreement transparency in the context of the international climate change negotiations generally refers to the measurement and reporting of information relating to mitigation adaptation finance technology and capacity building together with processes for the subsequent review and consideration of some of this information transparency is important because it helps to build trust between parties to the united nations framework convention on climate change unfccc increases confidence that parties are meeting their obligations under the unfccc and doing what they say they are doing helps countries identify gaps in climate change policies and informs stakeholders of the importance of climate change action