This document summarizes the provisional findings of the OECD's 2020 survey on green budgeting practices across member countries. The key findings include: 1) Green budgeting is more widely used than expected, with over half of responding countries having some form of green budgeting in place. 2) Strategic frameworks and accountability measures are common, while tools and methods vary more between countries. 3) Lack of methodologies and resources hold some countries back from further developing green budgeting. 4) Measuring the impact of green budgeting is a challenge for most countries. 5) Responding countries expect green perspectives to feature in upcoming economic recovery packages from COVID-19.

1. GREEN BUDGETING ACROSS THE OECD
STATE OF PLAY IN 2020
SCHERIE NICOL
LEAD – GREEN BUDGETING, OECD
PARIS, 5 OCT 2020

2. CONTENTS
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1. About the survey
2. Provisional survey findings
3. Observations

3. ABOUT THE SURVEY
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4. About the 2020 survey
• First green budgeting survey!
• Undertaken jointly with EC
• Coverage:
– 35 questions on
• Status of green budgeting
• Strategic framework
• Tools and methods
• Accountability and transparency
• Enabling environment
• Impacts
• COVID-19 and green recovery
• Response rate: 33 out of 37
• Data cleaning has just started, thus results are provisional…

5. PROVISIONAL SURVEY
FINDINGS
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Status of green budgeting
Green budgeting definition: Using the tools of budgetary policy-making to help achieve
environmental and climate goals. This includes evaluating environmental impacts of budgetary
and fiscal policies and assessing their coherence towards the delivery of national and
international commitments. Green budgeting can also contribute to informed, evidence-based
debate and discussion on sustainable growth. 2020 Provisional Survey Findings

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Status of green budgeting
2020 Provisional Survey Findings

8. Strategic framework for green budgeting
2020 Provisional Survey Findings

9. Strategic framework for green budgeting
2020 Provisional Survey Findings

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Tools and methods of green budgeting
Used by at least half
of countries that do
green budgeting
Used by at least a third
of countries that do
green budgeting
Less commonly used
tools… for now!
2020 Provisional Survey Findings

11. • Examples of “Other”:
– Information included in budget documentation
– Information included in environmental or climate reports
– Information included in environmental statistics
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Accountability and transparency
2020 Provisional Survey Findings

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Enabling environment
Supporting elements in at least a third of
countries that do green budgeting
Less common supporting elements
2020 Provisional Survey Findings

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Enabling environment
2020 Provisional Survey Findings

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Areas where countries would like support
2020 Provisional Survey Findings

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Impacts of green budgeting
2020 Provisional Survey Findings

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COVID-19 rescue measures and green
recovery packages
2020 Provisional Survey Findings

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COVID-19 rescue measures and green
recovery packages
2020 Provisional Survey Findings

18. OBSERVATIONS
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19. • More green budgeting activity than expected!
– This may reduce as we refine concepts and definitions through “data
cleaning”
– E.g., what should minimum criteria be for doing green budgeting?
• More green budgeting is planned and “green perspectives” will be a
common feature of forthcoming economic recovery packages
– This provides a window of opportunity to embed new ways of working
• Countries are held back by lack of methodologies and resources
– What can be done to help? How can we help?
• Little in place to measure impact
– Could this undermine green budgeting in the longer-term? How to
address this?
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Observations

20. THANK YOU
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