Item 5c, presentation by the KPC Consulting on public expenditure management in Austria during the GREEN Action Task Force Annual Meeting 2023.

1. KOMMUNALKREDIT PUBLIC CONSULTING (KPC)
Istanbul, May 12th, 2023
GREEN ACTION TASK FORCE
Greening Public Finance

2. 1
Kommunalkredit Public Consulting (KPC) at a Glance
Specialised in the management of support scheme, programmes and consulting services,
focus on climate and environmental tasks
 Managing Austria‘s support programme since 1993
 Outsourcing of governmental programmes to a private
specialised entity
 Governed by the Environmental Support Act
KPC
 National: federal Ministries for Climate Action and Agriculture,
regional Authorities, Climate- and Energy Fund
 International: multilateral and bilateral Donors – e.g. OECD, EIB,
EBRD, EU, KfW, …
Clients
 Specialised expertise – environment and climate
 Green finance Programmes,
 Grant schemes
 Climate finance consulting
Skills
Renewable
energies und
energy efficiency
Mobility
management
Water
management, flood
protection and
remediation of
contaminated sites
International
Climate Policy
and Climate
Finance
Biodiversity and
Land recycling
INTERNATIONAL
CONSULTING:
Consulting of national and
international organisations in the
core area of environment and
energy, international climate
finance and development finance
CLIMATE AUSTRIA:
platform of the voluntary carbon offsetting
programme
FUNDING & PROGRAMME
MANAGEMENT:
Management of a variety of support
schemes for the public sector since
1993
Unsere Vision:
Eine lebenswerte
Umwelt für uns und
spätere Generationen

3. 2
Overall Approach
Greening public finance – Grant scheme
 Joint commitment by EU and its MS
 Two main political measures to reduce emissions.
 European Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) – covering large industry and utilities
 European Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR) – covering all other sectors
COMMITMENT TO ACHIEVING THE PARIS CLIMATE GOALS
 High level of specialisation
o Specialized team of esperts
o IT infrastructure
o Single point of contact
 Targeted approach:
o Fast and flexible
o independent
o Outcome orientated
Managed by KPC
GRANTS AS MAIN INSTRUMENT
 Easy and fast to implement
 Significant impact on Austria’s CO2 balance
 Broad political consensus
 Green budget spending for behavioral change
 Less controversial than regulatory interventions, taxation
 Measurable impact, easy to monitor

4. 3
 Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Regions and Tourism
 Federal Ministry of Climate Action, Environment, Energy,
Mobility, Innovation and Technology
 Climate and Energy Fund
 Federal states
o Salzburg
o Tyrol
o Vienna
o Vorarlberg
o Lower Austria
o Styria
 OeMAG
Clients
Green Public Intervention
Partner for the public sector
 Municipalites
 Businesses
 Private Households
Beneficiaries
KPC develops and manages support programmes in the fields of environment and climate protection
Municipal
water
energy
efficiency
Buildings
District
heating /
cooling
E-mobility
biodiversity
renewables

5. 4

Grant Programming
Committing and evaluating funds
Call for Projects
Evaluation & Award
Application
Evaluation
&
Approval
Disbursement
Programming / Design Phase
Specified funding
Directive
Guidance for Applicants
(Budget) restrictions
Funding Programme (continuous) Call for Projects (deadline)
Monitoring – Reporting - Verification
Eligible technologies
Eligible investment cost
Additional grant element
Eligibility
Competitiveness
Completion
Invoicing
Disbursement Completion
Invoicing
Process improvement:
• On-site verification
• Impact verification
Programme improvement:
• Annual Reporting
• 3yr Evaluation
(e.g. industrial transformation
Budget EUR 95 mln
DL 28/06/2023
Criteria: Euro/ tCO2 mitigated)
(e.g. biomass based DH
Budget -
DL -
Criteria: up to 35% of eligible investment cost)

6. 5
Key Achievements (2022)
In million EUR Number
Investment
Costs
Financial
Support
Clearances Disbursement
Environmental support schemes of the federal
government 336.633 3.651,9 937,5 334.558 826,5
Siedlungswasserwirtschaft 1.505 505,0 90,6 1.314 276,9
Gewässerökologie 43 12,3 8,0 32 5,7
Hochwasserschutz 579 175,6 79,1 705 96,4
Umweltförderung im Inland 6.325 780,8 159,0 5.838 73,4
Klimafreundliche Fernwärme / Fernkälte 8 12,2 3,0 0 0,0
Sanierungsoffensive 47.216 1.522,0 355,8 45.729 321,3
Kreislaufwirtschaft 106 158,0 56,4 0 0,0
Reparaturbonus 280.591 59,0 28,1 280.492 28,1
Flächenrecycling 7 0,5 0,4 0 0,0
Altlastensanierung 13 141,2 127,3 12 22,4
Biodiversitätsfonds 10 2,5 1,1 0 0,0
Waldfonds 65 158,5 11,2 0 0,0
klimaaktiv mobil 0 0,0 0,0 13 0,1
Internationale Klimafinanzierung 5 2,9 2,9 3 2,2
EU-Kofinanzierungen UFG 160 121,5 14,6 420 0,0
Climate and Energy Fund 75.849 2.265,4 331,6 70.987 179,6
Photovoltaik und Solaranlagen 32.985 571,5 100,0 30.997 84,0
Mobilitätsmanagement 41.310 1.559,7 178,4 37.758 90,5
Arbeitsprogramme 597 72,6 43,6 280 5,2
EU-Kofinanzierungen 957 61,6 9,7 1.952 0,0
Other Programmes 1.873 98,0 4,1 559 2,2
Ökostrom - Wasserkraftwerke 2 2,6 0,8 12 0,0
Salzburg 12 1,1 0,2 142 1,9
Tirol 1.645 85,0 2,5 55 0,0
Vorarlberg 115 7,6 0,3 106 0,2
Wien 99 1,7 0,4 244 0,0
Total 414.355 6.015,3 1.273,2 406.104 1.008,3
2022:
APPROX. 6
BILLION EUROS
INVESTMENT
75.400 JOBS
GENERATED
2022:
450.000
tCO2/a

7. 6
Summary
Lessons over time
Key:
 Implementation – monitoring - improvement
 Proper safeguards
 Evaluation and reporting – feedbacking the system
 Long-term programming, planning horizon for
investors
 Adequate funding – avoidance of over-support
 Consistent technical measures
 IT-platform - accessibility
 Information and support for grantees
Key:
 Widely recognized in Austria
 Easily accessible
 Adequate funding
 Planning security
 Well established / long-lasting instrument
 > 1,000,000 funding cases
 > EUR 7 bln funding volume
 -> impact on green industry / jobs
generated
 -> impact on MWh/a energy savings
 -> impact on t/a CO2 savings
ISSUES
ACHIEVEMENTS RESULTS (over ten years)

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