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ecoBUDGET-ASIA is a project funded by the ASIA-URBS programme and run by the Municipality of Bologna in Italy (as project co-ordinator), Växjö Municipality in Sweden, Guntur Municipal Corporation in India and the Province of Bohol in the Philippines, with the technical support of ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability.
It aims to transfer the knowledge and experience of ecoBUDGET in European cities with their Asian counterparts.
ecoBUDGET itself is an environmental management system created by ICLEI for implementation at local government level. By aiming at this target group, whole territories and communities can be addressed, rather than individual entities.
To complement the arena in which it is applied, ecoBUDGET adopts the routines and terminology of financial budgeting, without assigning a monetary value to the environment. Efficiency gains, etc., are measured instead by indicators, which are chosen to reflect the situation of the individual municipality.
Bologna and Växjö are able collaborate at peer-to-peer level with the Asian partners through a series of workshops and field visits. This will be complemented by the launch of a web-based resource centre.
Through this Website you can discover more about the background of the project and its objectives. You will get an opportunity to meet the partners and see what has been achieved to date.
"There are today two opposing ways of regarding development. The first sees financial profit as the only criterion with which to measure success. The second, on the other hand, considers development to be profoundly linked to such essential aspects as the personal dignity of the worker, public health and the conservation of natural resources. I believe that ecoBUDGET is a tool that can be used by cities aiming to respect this second concept of development."
Sergio Cofferati, Lord Mayor of Bologna
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