Lisbon City Council’s first-ever ‘green’ participatory budget, an initiative supported and managed by South Pole and EIT Climate-KIC’s City Finance Lab, has been allocated a €5 million budget to support climate change mitigation and adaptation projects selected by local citizens. The Mayor of Lisbon made the announcement in May 2019 during the ceremony for this… Read More
Our Money, Our Planet. Participatory Budgeting and the Green New Deal
Participatory Budgeting(PB) enables people to make their community better, starting with issues that concern us all. The biggest concern we face as a society is climate change. In a new blog featured on the Shared Future CIC’s website Alan Budge connects PB and climate change. We feature some highlights below. In August 2018, Greta Thunberg,… Read More
