India to have a climate change budgetary supplement from next year

Government begins work on detailed annual greenhouse gas emissions inventory as well

From next year, India will start climate budgeting, a practice to account for budgetary measures that support climate change-related actions across the country. Quite along the the lines of gender budgeting, the government will also prepare a supplementary report to go with the main budget documents accounting for how much money India is annually investing on climate change.

The government has also begun groundwork for a detailed and granular greenhouse gas emissions inventory which will be generated annually in order to meet one of India’s climate change commitments towards greater transparency under the Paris Agreement.

The decision to