Aligning Regional and Local Budgets with Green Objectives
Subnational Green Budgeting Practices and Guidelines
Green budgeting is emerging at subnational levels as an important tool for regions and cities to use to align their expenditure and revenues with their green objectives, and enhance the transparency and accountability of their climate and environmental action. It is also a tool that subnational governments can use to prioritise low-carbon investments and identify funding gaps, as well as to mobilise additional sources of both private and public climate finance. In order for subnational governments to make full use of green budgeting however, more methodological, technical, and financial support is needed. This report presents a first stocktake of subnational green budgeting practices in OECD and EU countries as well as a set of guidelines for subnational governments to use in developing and launching a green budgeting practice. It is accompanied by two green budgeting case studies – one with the Region of Brittany (France) and one with the City of Venice (Italy) – and a self-assessment tool. The self-assessment tool allows regions and cities to measure their capacity to launch a green budgeting practice or strengthen an existing one, and is available on the OECD Subnational Government Climate Finance Hub as a downloadable Excel file.
Subnational green budgeting guidelines
The stocktake of existing subnational green budgeting practices in the OECD and EU, and the two case studies of Brittany and Venice, provide valuable insights into the prerequisites and mechanisms necessary to develop and implement a green budgeting practice. These insights helped to develop a set of six key guidelines for regions and cities to use in developing and launching their own subnational green budgeting practice. They are accompanied by recommendations for supranational bodies, national governments, and subnational governments as well as by a self-assessment tool that subnational governments can use to assess their strengths and potential gaps for launching a green budgeting practice.
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