Principles
- Estimation: climate scenarios are uncertain, but better than nothing, usually
- No greenwashing: CC is important, but mostly secondary to development
- Integrated planning: prioritisation happens in the plan/budget, against a frame
- No guff and gloss: all climate actions are not equally urgent
- Climate fund roles: use climate funds for studies and capacity-building
Clients
- Business: estimating the impact of CC risks on your business and investment opportunities
- Ministries of Finance: systems for rigorous appraisal and budget scoring
- Line Ministries: designing adaptation and mitigation actions and obtaining funds
- Climate Funds: assessing funding applications
- Voluntary Organisations: small donations from the Climate Scrutiny Fund
Fields
Climate Scrutiny works in the following areas
- CC Plans and Strategies, including priority actions and financing frameworks
- CC Impact Appraisal (CCIA), implications of CC for policy/project effectiveness
- CC Public Expenditure Reviews (CPERs/CPEIRs), reviewing recent climate expenditure
- Climate Budget Tagging (CBT), classifying public expenditure related to CC
- CC Economic Growth Impact Model (CEGIM), analysing the impact of CC on economic growth
- CC Financing Frameworks (CCFFs), combining CPEIRs, CCIA and CEGIM
Projects
- India: CCFFs (SAPFINs) for Kerala, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh; CCIA in Maharashtra, Assam, Bihar
- Pan-Africa: support for IBFCCA climate mainstreaming programme
- Cambodia: CPEIR, CCFF, CEGIM, Carbon Neutral Strategy, Green Infrastructure Study
- South Africa: CBT design/piloting
- Vietnam: provincial CC mainstreaming (CPEIR, CBT)
- Malawi: CPEIR