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Page 1: Eco Budget
Page 2: Eco Budget

www.ecoBUDGET.com

ecoBUDGET-Partnership Launch

at the ICLEI World Congress 2009, Edmonton, Canada

Page 3: Eco Budget

The full cost of municipal action

Municipal activitiesalso require

natural resources

Ongoing challenge:how to provide services to

citizens withlimited resources?

Note: municipal action always has both a monetary

and an environmental cost.

Municipal servicesrequire

financial resources

Page 4: Eco Budget

Managing Expenditure Through a Budget

Municipal decisionmakers determine the financial health of the

local authority

Note: Local government leaders bear responsibility for all resources (i.e.

both monetary and natural), for debt, for property, for assets management

Financialbudgeting systemsroutinely applied

As we can manage our artificial resource - money - in terms of a budget, why shouldn’t we do the same with natural resources?

Konrad Otto-Zimmermann Secretary General, ICLEI

How do municipaldecision makers manage

monetary resources?

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ecoBUDGET: Towards an Integrated Managementof all Municipal Resources

We all know that there is a massive destruction of our environment. Our forest cover is thinning and we are experiencing scarcity of some natural resources. Knowing that it can help us protect the environment, I welcome ecoBudget even if it was my political opponent who started its implementation.

Luna Piezas, Lord Mayor, Tubigon, Philippines

Municipal territory,all effects of services, all

resources, all stakeholders

Keep environmentalspending within the

limits set

Manage natural resourcesas efficiently as

financial resources

Designed withand for

local governments

MirrorsFinancial

budgeting

Plan, control, monitor,report on, and evaluate

Page 6: Eco Budget

Why manage environmental resourcesthrough a budget?

Better informeddecision-makingBenchmarks

Accountability

Priorities

Integrated, effectiveand efficient

Control over impacts Unwavering attention

Feed-back loop

Steering the sustainabilityperformance

Page 7: Eco Budget

Reduction in urban poverty, resource friendly development, good governance and enhanced administrative and management performance capacity are some of the basic elements of this (ecoBudget) process.

Mr. Kanna LakshminarayanaHon’ble Minister of Transport for Andhra Pradesh, India

6 Good Reasons for ecoBudgeting

1stAdvantage: Mayors and CEOs

become trueresource managers

2ndAdvantage: Implementing

the UN Millennium Development Goals

4thAdvantage: Unwavering

attention to natureand environment

is sustained

5thAdvantage: Improved financial

credibility

6thAdvantage: Local Capacity Development

3rdAdvantage: Environmental resources are managed in an integrated way

Page 8: Eco Budget

The Phases of the ecoBUDGET

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1. Budget planning and approval

Administrative organisation

Preliminary Report

Master Budget

Prioritised natural resources

Strategic long-term targets

Operational short-term targets

Council resolution

Budget becomes an integral andcompulsory aspect ofdecision-making

How does an ecoBUDGET look like?

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2. Budget implementation

Conscious planning

Management ofmeasures & projects

Account for each indicator

Regularly and frequentlymonitoring

Up-to-date bookkeeping

Interim reporting

Corrective measures

Budget supplements

Example of monitoring and accounting worksheet

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3. Budget balancing

Municipality’s environmental performance of policies

Degree of accomplishing short-and long-term targets

Results fed back to the politicaldecision-maker

Budget Balance and report

Environmental Assets takes stock

Sustainability Analysis presentsdegree of resource efficiency

Council ratification

Accountability transferred

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None of these things (improvement in water quality testing and water quantity) were thought of until this concept of looking at the natural resources, their planning, budgeting a master budget, an implementable budget, a practical budget, a workable budget came in. All these things are spin offs of what I would say the concept that we need to budget our natural resources.

Mr. S. Jain, Commissioner, Guntur, India

ecoBUDGET in practice

Tubigon, Philippines: Implementing the Millenium Development Goals –

Environment and Poverty (MDG)

Guntur, India: Air Quality Improvement supports Local

Economy

Växjö, Sweden:Becoming Fossil

Fuel Free

Bologna, Italy: Sustainable City Development Respects

Resource Scarcety

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Responding to the climatechange challenge

Rapidly changingframework conditions

Realizisation at local level

Re-focus on strategic environmental aspects,all resources, the whole

territory area, all relevant stakeholders

Cyclic management approach more

favourable option

Interconnectivity of issue

Traditional long- and medium term planning not sufficient

Develop capacities for climate change response

Outstanding importance of ambitious and radical

political targets

Whole territory area, all relevant stakeholders

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Eco-Budgeting is Participatory Budgeting

Improved local environmental

governance through ecoBudget

Cycle ideal platformfor ‘ownership’

Participation in setting targets, measures & projects, monitoring,

evaluation

Final power withmunicipal council

ParticipatoryEnvironmental

Budgeting

Support to LocalAgenda process

Partners needed for implementation

Key toAccomplishing

targets