Bridging the Green Budgeting Gap: Comparing Green Budgeting Practices in Late Beginners (Spain, Portugal, Italy) and Early Adopters (Sweden)

With Yulia Kasperskaya

This project explores the adoption of green budgeting practices across the European Union (EU), focusing on late beginner countries—Spain, Portugal, and Italy—and their comparison to Sweden as an early adopter. Green budgeting, the integration of environmental considerations into fiscal policies, is a critical innovation for addressing climate change and achieving sustainable development. This research takes a novel interdisciplinary approach, bridging public finance, governance, and sustainability studies to explore how political, economic, and institutional contexts influence green budgeting adoption.