Green budgeting – aligning budgetary policy with climate and environmental goals – is rising up the agenda at EU, national and subnational levels, and the challenge is increasingly practical. FiFo-Köln, as technical expert, has accompanied the development of a practical green budgeting tagging methodology for Baden-Württemberg*. The policy brief “Green budget tagging in practice” outlines the approach taken in Baden-Württemberg alongside equivalent methods in two other European administrations: the Italian Region of Lombardy, and Greece. Its core message is clear: green budget tagging is not a one-off technical exercise but a multi-cycle reform process.
*Project funded by the European Union via the Technical Support Instrument and implemented by Expertise France in cooperation with the European Commission