Overview

Mainstreaming climate change mitigation and adaptation policies in macro-fiscal and other relevant policy planning, budgeting, public investment management and public procurement is essential to avert the effects of climate change. Some countries have made progress in these areas, building on robust, evidence-based planning and financial management systems. Members are encouraged to share their experience and contribute to the development of tools that can be applied in other countries, including those with more limited capacity.

Key actions and deliverables under Helsinki Principle 4 include:

  • Developing tools to address knowledge and expertise gaps in macroeconomic forecasting and fiscal planning for climate change impacts, as well as disaster risk management, among others.
  • Preparing toolkits and guides on whole of government approaches that integrate climate in the policy and budget process, such as green budgeting where appropriate, green procurement and climate-informed public investment management.
  • Supporting macroeconomic and fiscal assessments of adaptation, resilience and mitigation policies, including NDCs.

 

Country Lead

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Member Countries: Austria, Bangladesh, Canada, Chile, Finland, France, Greece, Honduras, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Portugal, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Uganda

Actively Engaged Partners

  • European Commission
  • LSE/Grantham Research Institute
  • International Monetary Fund
  • Network for Greening the Financial System
  • OECD
  • United Nations Development Program
  • UNEP
  • World Bank Group
  • World Resources Institute

 

Priority policy areas within workstream for 2024-2025

  • Integrate climate into the macroeconomic modelling tools and approaches and develop better answers to the policy challenges faced by Ministries of Finance in assessing the economic and fiscal implications of climate change.
  • Identify current gaps and opportunities in green budgeting to catalyze climate action, including other cross-cutting issues such as disaster risk management and disaster risk financing.

Publications:

surveyRead the new report MOFS GLOBAL SURVEY (June 2025).

Most Ministries of Finance are concerned about climate change and the risks and opportunities of green and resilient transitions, but face barriers to addressing this in their economic analysis and decision-making. The HP4 workstream of the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action published the most comprehensive survey to date on how finance ministries perceive their countries’ climate-related policy challenges and the state of their analytical capacity to support green and resilient transitions.