1. THE PARIS
COLLABORATIVE ON
GREEN BUDGETING
WORKING TOGETHER
TOWARDS THE FORWARD
AGENDA
Dr Simon BUCKLE,
Head of Climate, Biodiversity & Water Division,
Environment Directorate, OECD
Paris Collaborative on Green Budgeting
Expert Workshop on Green Budgeting
20 June 2018, OECD Headquarters, Paris

2. Launch at One
Planet Summit,
12 Dec 2017 in
Paris
22 May
Introductor
y workshop
20 June
Experts
Workshop
16 July
HLPF
side event
26 Sept.
One Planet
Summit progress
report
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A roadmap for the Paris Collaborative
• Elaborate on green
budgeting
definition
• Scope potential
green budgeting
tools
• Engage working group for
further scoping
• Develop new methodological
approaches
• Test and refine new green
budgeting tools

3. Some key considerations:
• Multiple communities and committees
• Direct and indirect linkages between budget, fiscal
and environmental issues
• Need for underpinning analytical work and
methodological development:
– Linkages not fully identified or understood in many cases
– Lack of clarity on definitions and methodologies to support
efforts to give greater clarity to these inter-relationships
– Lack of indicators and other tools to communicate key
messages
• Countries free to adopt tools and methodologies –
or not
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How will the Paris Collaborative work?

4. Core analytical and research work
• Definitions, methodologies and analysis
• Indicator development
Optional work programmes
1. Designing and applying a “Green Budget Statement”
2. Designing and Applying a “Green Budget Policy Baseline
Analysis”
3. Applying environmental cost-benefit assessments in support of
green budgeting
4. Investigating the tax revenue effects of environmentally-oriented
tax policy and of environment-related structural economic
change, including decarbonisation
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Envisaged future work streams

5. • Significant data, methodological and
knowledge gaps on climate-related private
finance, and available information is scattered.
• Further research and better co-ordination of
on-going initiatives required to improve
identification, measurement or estimation and
reporting.
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Similar challenges faced by the Research
Collaborative

6. • An open network, coordinated and hosted by the OECD,
comprising governments, research institutions and IFIs.
• Its goal is to partner and share best available data,
expertise and information to advance policy-relevant
research in a comprehensive and timely manner.
• Designed as a coordinating platform for:
– Identifying research priorities and gaps
– Sharing information
– Weaving a coherent narrative across otherwise disparate
research outputs
– Communicating results to raise awareness
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Research Collaborative: Nature and Role

7. 7
- For Research Collaborative
implementation

8. • Supervision and endorsement of outputs by
the relevant OECD bodies (e.g. SBO, EPOC,
CFA at senior level)
• Engagement with the relevant OECD
subsidiary bodies
• An open research platform to advance the
analytical and methodological work for the
range of environmental challenges and to
propose, develop and test potential tools to
needed to support green budgeting
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It is proposed that the Paris
Collaborative should involve:

9. • Participation at senior expert level in the
biannual meetings
• Cooperation on core analytical work (scope,
definitions, indicators)
• According to national circumstances and
budgetary processes, engage in optional
activities
• No requirement for specific commitment to adopt
national green budgeting practices
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Joining the Paris Collaborative on
Green Budgeting

10. • Consider high-level statement of
support
• 16 July: HLPF High-level Side Event on
Green Budgeting, 6.30-8 pm, New York
• Climate events in New York around 26
September 2018
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Next steps

11.  Do delegates agree on the need for regular meetings
of the Collaborative at senior expert level on a twice-
yearly basis?
 What other organisations and experts would it be
useful to engage?
 Do delegates agree that the Paris Collaborative
expert group should elaborate the terms of reference
and priorities for a (multi-annual) work programme, to
be agreed by the relevant Committees, notably SBO
EPOC and CFA?
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Discussion

12. Contacts:
Ronnie.DOWNES@oecd.org
Juliane.JANSEN@oecd.org
Simon.BUCKLE@oecd.org
Nathalie.GIROUARD@oecd.org
Kurt.VANDENDER@oecd.org
Luisa.BRADBURY@oecd.org
Thank you