Greening cities through Participatory Budgeting: Answers to climate change from Lisbon, Portugal and Molina de Segura, Spain

This book provides tools and practical answers to implement climate-sensitive participating budgeting [PB] and is aimed at city policy-makers, practitioners and citizens interested in starting or consolidating greener PB in their city, district or country. It offers answers to 60 frequently asked questions, complemented with hyperlinked detailed boxes, a set of appendix and websites, that altogether bring additional layers of know-how and knowledge to the answers.

It showcases Lisbon's city-wide Green Seal PB, which was introduced in 2018, explaining how and why it was implemented; Lisbon School Green PB pilot launched in 2019, the preparatory stages of the planned Climate PB 2020, and the experience with School Climate PB in Molina de Segura, Spain, which was the first of its kind when it was launched in late 2019 and that was inspired by Lisbon's experience. It mainly draws from the cooperation phases between both municipalities, City Finance Lab, EIT Climate-KIC, South Pole and FMDV, Global Fund for Cities Development

Yves Cabannes

Urban specialist, activist and scholar. Since the mid 1990s, he has been involved with participatory budgeting through research, project implementation, teaching and advocacy in a large number of cities around the world. Mr. Cabannes was the Senior Advisor to the Municipality of Porto Alegre, Brazil, for the International Network on Participatory Budgeting. He became Emeritus Professor of Development Planning at University College London in 2015.

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