This report was produced by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE), led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director, as part of the programme of work of the Regional Development Policy Committee (RDPC). The OECD gratefully acknowledges the European Commission’s financial contribution and support in the framework of the OECD-EC project on Measuring and Enhancing Subnational Government Finance for Environment and Climate Action in OECD and EU Countries.
The report was led and co-ordinated by Isabelle Chatry, Head of Unit of “Decentralisation, Subnational Finance and Infrastructure” under the supervision of Dorothée Allain-Dupré, Head of the Regional Development and Multi-Level Governance Division in CFE. The report was drafted by Isabelle Chatry and Kate Power from CFE and Dominique Soulier, expert in local finance and lecturer at Sciences Po Paris and University Paris-Dauphine with inputs from Youssef Bouri and Charlotte Lafitte (CFE). The report benefitted from inputs and comments from Nadim Ahmad, Deputy Director of CFE, Margaux Lelong of the OECD Public Governance Directorate which co‑ordinates the Paris Collaborative on Green Budgeting (PCGB), and Mauro Migotto in the OECD Environment Directorate.
The OECD would like to thank the European Commission, and in particular the Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO), for its co-operation and support throughout this process. Special thanks are due to Peter Berkowitz, Director of Policy Division in DG REGIO for initiating the project as well as to Myriam Boveda, Team Leader for Sustainable Growth and DG REGIO co‑ordinator for this project, Lewis Djikstra and Catherine Wendt for their excellent collaboration and insights.
The report benefited from valuable information, advice and feedback from the regional government of Brittany and the city of Venice, the two case studies of this work. The OECD is very grateful to them for organising meetings between the different regional and city departments, and for inviting the OECD team at technical and steering committee meetings of their green budgeting initiative. Special thanks are due to Gildas Lebret, Lucas Manetti and Evelyne Charrier from the Brittany Regional Government and to Massimiliano De Martin, Danielo Gerotto, Loris Sartori, Anna Bressan, Cristiana Scarpa, Chiara De Marchi, Paola Cazzador and Fabiana Maschietto and Paola Ravenna from the city of Venice. The OECD team would also like to thank Professor Mario Volpe from the University of Venezia Ca’ Foscari for his help in introducing the project to the city of Venice, as well as to Ekaterina Travkina (OECD, CFE) for her support in this process.
Sincere thanks are also extended to the large number of people who shared their time and perspectives with the OECD team on the occasion of bilateral meetings but also during the two events organised in October and November 2021 (an expert workshop and a COP26 side-event) in the framework of the OECD-EC project. The OECD is very grateful to Morgane Nicol, Marion Fetet and Antoine Goxe from the Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE) for inviting the OECD to attend the meetings of the Green Budgeting Working Group involving several French regions, and to Olivia de Maleville (Regions de France) for her support in this context. Additional thanks go to Christophe Amoretti-Hannequin (France Urbaine), Catrin Robertsen (C40 Cities), Bella Tonkonogy and Priscilla Negreiros (Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance Secretariat), Jean-Damien Colombo (Clermont-Ferrand), Frank Lee (European Investment Bank), Gianluca Spinaci and Jose Fonseca (Committee of the Regions) and Audrey Nivole (Environmental, Social and Economic Regional Council of Brittany – CESER).
The OECD is also grateful for comments and guidance received from the delegates of the OECD Regional Development Policy Committee (RDPC) and the RDPC Expert Group on Multi-Level Governance for Regional Development.
Finally, the authors gratefully acknowledge Nikki Trutter and François Iglesias (OECD) for their help on communication. The report was edited and formatted by Eleonore Morena and received editorial input from Pilar Philip (OECD) who prepared the manuscript for publication and co‑ordinated the production process of the report.