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The full cost of municipal action
Municipal activities also require
natural resources
Ongoing challenge: how to provide services to
citizens with limited resources?
Note: municipal action always has both a monetary and an environmental cost.
Municipal services require
financial resources
Managing Expenditure Through a Budget
Municipal decision makers 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
Financial budgeting systems routinely 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 OttoZimmermann Secretary General, ICLEI
How do municipal decision makers manage monetary resources?
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 environmental spending within the
limits set
Manage natural resources as efficiently as
financial resources
Designed with and for
local governments
Mirrors Financial budgeting
Plan, control, monitor, report on, and evaluate
Why manage environmental resources through a budget?
Better informed decisionmaking Benchmarks
Accountability
Priorities
Integrated, effective and efficient
Control over impacts Unwavering attention
Feedback loop
Steering the sustainability performance
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 Lakshminarayana Hon’ble Minister of Transport for Andhra Pradesh, India
6 Good Reasons for ecoBudgeting
1 st Advantage: Mayors and CEOs
become true resource managers
2 nd Advantage: Implementing
the UN Millennium Development Goals
4 th Advantage: Unwavering
attention to nature and environment is sustained
5 th Advantage: Improved financial credibility
6 th Advantage: Local Capacity Development
3 rd Advantage: Environmental resources are managed in an integrated way
The Phases of the ecoBUDGET
1. Budget planning and approval
Administrative organisation
Preliminary Report
Master Budget
Prioritised natural resources
Strategic longterm targets
Operational shortterm targets
Council resolution
Budget becomes an integral and compulsory aspect of decisionmaking
How does an ecoBUDGET look like?
2. Budget implementation
Conscious planning
Management of measures & projects
Account for each indicator
Regularly and frequently monitoring
Uptodate bookkeeping
Interim reporting
Corrective measures
Budget supplements
Example of monitoring and accounting worksheet
3. Budget balancing
Municipality’s environmental performance of policies
Degree of accomplishing short and longterm targets
Results fed back to the political decisionmaker
Budget Balance and report
Environmental Assets takes stock
Sustainability Analysis presents degree of resource efficiency
Council ratification
Accountability transferred
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
Responding to the climate change challenge
Rapidly changing framework conditions
Realizisation at local level
Refocus 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
EcoBudgeting is Participatory Budgeting
Improved local environmental
governance through ecoBudget
Cycle ideal platform for ‘ownership’
Participation in setting targets, measures & projects, monitoring,
evaluation
Final power with municipal council
Participatory Environmental Budgeting
Support to Local Agenda process
Partners needed for implementation
Key to Accomplishing
targets