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.
Self-assessment tool
This self-assessment tool (SAT) has been developed in the framework of the joint OECD and European Commission (DG REGIO) project Measuring and Enhancing Subnational Government Finance for Environment and Climate Action in OECD and EU Countries. The SAT tool is available as a downloadable Excel file on the Subnational Green Budgeting page (https://www.oecd.org/regional/snggreenbudgeting.htm) of the OECD’s Subnational Government Climate Finance Hub (https://www.oecd.org/regional/sngclimatefinancehub.htm).
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