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Published onFor the definition of the assigned category and the development of the assessment, the responses to the following information requests were taken into account:
Ministry of Economy
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I_BSMIvBTJU4mP0LkNxyHin52oA6_vkL/view?usp=drive_link
Further information:
2024 Budget: Chronicle of an Announced Adjustment in Environmental Protection
Climate Change Budget Identification
FIRST ANALYSIS OF THIS OBJECTIVE CONDUCTED IN AUGUST 2025
Category
No progress
Detail
The Open Budget platform includes the function “Ecology and Sustainable Development”, but this is a functional classification of expenditure rather than a cross-cutting climate budget tagging system. Although some expenditure classified under this function may be related to climate action, it does not amount to the incorporation of climate action tagging into the national budget. For such tagging to be considered in place, there should be a distinct category, clearly differentiated from ecology or sustainable development measures, that reflects each item’s contribution to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
There is no regulation or guidance issued by the National Budget Office establishing a tagging methodology, mitigation and adaptation markers, or reporting of climate-related expenditure by programme and jurisdiction. Nor is there an operational pilot or published time series identifying climate expenditure in sectors beyond “ecology”, such as energy, transport and agriculture.
It is important to note that Argentina is operating under an extended budget for the second consecutive year. This gives the National Executive Branch greater discretion to modify budget allocations and substantially limits the possibility of implementing cross-cutting tagging systems such as climate budget tagging. Despite the two budget extensions, the two most recent Budget Bills did not provide for cross-cutting climate budget tagging.