A theoretical model for the use of participatory budgeting in implementing an environmental policy and combating climate change
Abstract
Modern states have a responsibility to run an effective climate policy by adapting solutions that will have a long-term positive impact on the surrounding environment. This also applies to the state of the law, which must respond to the changing reality. An important research problem addressed in this study is whether there is a regulation in Polish legislation that allows the functioning of so-called green participatory budgeting. With this in mind, I present the following research questions: Can participatory budgeting as a public participation tool be a basis for an effective model of engaging residents in the fight against climate change? Does the Polish legal system stipulate the creation of climate-related participatory budgeting? Does the Polish legislation need a new regulation on green participatory budgeting, through which only pro-climate projects will be created? Providing answers to these research questions was possible after conducting an analysis based on the following research methods: interpretation of the law in force and an analysis of the evolution of law in time. This allowed the following conclusions: participatory budgeting (PB) is an appropriate form of public participation, thanks to which pro-climate tasks can be developed. The current legal regulations in Poland relating to participatory budgeting should be described as general, which, based on the analysis carried out here, was found to be insufficient and incompatible with the social reality, which aims to have pro-climate proposals and to implement them. Therefore, the legislator must intervene and allow citizens to submit such projects under a separate procedure for climate participatory budgeting.
Keywords:
participatory budgeting, green participatory budgeting, public participation, environmental policyReferences
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