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Investor Disclosure and Spatial Transparency: Bridging the Accountability Gap? Mike Dwyer Forest Trends meeting, Phuket 23 July 2014 Who is (or was or will be) doing what, where? And how do we know? Specifically, is it possible to cross

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Investor Disclosure and Spatial Transparency: Bridging the Accountability Gap?

Mike Dwyer Forest Trends meeting, Phuket 23 July 2014

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Specifically, is it possible to cross reference concession inventory systems (as reported online) with shareholder reports (as provided in publicly available databases)

Who is (or was or will be) doing what, where? And how do we know? What should be the public’s role in this process?

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Specifically, is it possible to cross reference concession inventory systems (as reported online) with shareholder reports (as provided in publicly available databases)

SPATIAL TRANSPARENCY DISCLOSURE TO INVESTORS

What data do governments give the public about who is investing in what, where? What data do companies give their investors about where and how they are spending their money?

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Specifically, is it possible to cross reference concession inventory systems (as reported online) with shareholder reports (as provided in publicly available databases)

SPATIAL TRANSPARENCY DISCLOSURE TO INVESTORS

What data do governments give the public about who is investing in what, where? What data do companies give their investors about where and how they are spending their money?

Online spatial databases
Other online data with

spatial reference information

Public companies’ annual

reports

Financial databases (e.g.,

Bloomberg, ThomsonOne)

Is it possible to cross reference concession inventory systems (as reported online) with companies annual reports?

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Approx. & not to scale

Data Managed by Chinese gov. spending on

pium poppy

replacement agribusiness in Myanmar & Laos Government of China: XSB Prefecture Commerce Department State land lease & concession locations* inventoried 2007- 2011 by NLMA/ MONRE with GIZ support Government of Laos: National Statistics Department Economic land concession locations** (from MAFF or Royal Gazette) Civil Society: Open Development Cambodia (ODC) Oil palm concessions from Ministry of Forestry Civil society: World Resources Institute (WRI)

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Agricultural and tree plantation concessions Economic Land Concessions (ELCs)

Kon Tum Gia Lai Dac Lac Dac Nong Binh Phuoc Kampong Thom Mondolkiri Kratie Ratanakiri Stung Treng Champasak Attapeu Xekong Salavan Savannakhet Preah Vihear Based on data from Decide-Info Laos (http://decide.la) and OpenDevelopmentCambodia.net

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Oil palm concessions (n=1,220) Cross-reference? Yes n=12 Yes if GAR data n=17 No

Based on data from WRI Forest Cover Analyzer (now Global Forest Watch)

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Oil palm concessions (n=1,220) Cross-reference? Yes n=12 Yes if GAR data n=17 No

GAR plantations (2012)

Based on data from WRI Forest Cover Analyzer (now Global Forest Watch)

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Based on data available at http://xsbn.mofcom.gov.cn/aarticle/gonggao/200809/20080905777443.html

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Conclusions

Investment/development is outpacing regulation: old data, partial data, subsidiaries.

Information systems thus tend to reflect opaque systems of governance more than they offer transparency, whether materially or legally.

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Conclusions

Investment/development is outpacing regulation: old data, partial data, subsidiaries.

Information systems thus tend to reflect opaque systems of governance more than they offer transparency, whether materially or legally.

Information systems nonetheless offer significant forms of partial transparency, and

thus represent an important area of engagement/struggle over the public’s role in development.

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Conclusions

Investment/development is outpacing regulation: old data, partial data, subsidiaries.

Information systems thus tend to reflect opaque systems of governance more than they offer transparency, whether materially or legally.

Information systems nonetheless offer significant forms of partial transparency, and

thus represent an important area of engagement/struggle over the public’s role in development.

Three concrete proposals
Clarify public’s legal right to know about who, what, where, when.
Gazetting of public resource concessions?
Greater spatial disclosure to investors?