Chloé BOUTRON
Research fellow – Tools for financing the transition at the international levelChloé joined I4CE in 2021. She principally works on international experiences with green budgeting and explores the possibility to include social considerations in these types of exercises.
She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a M.A. in Political Science and from the University of London with a B.Sc. in Economics. Her academic focus was on international political economy and on environmental policy.
Before joining I4CE, Chloé worked as a research assistant on public opinion on carbon taxation in Canada and on the processes that led to the implementation of the French carbon tax. Besides, she has been involved in several GHG accounting projects and has taught classes on topics such as international conflict resolution.
Last contributions
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02/07/2024
Climate Report
Social and Climate Budget Tagging: Insights from Indonesia
Attention is growing to the need to tackle climate and social issues jointly. Indeed, both climate change and climate policies affect social issues such as poverty, inequality, or access to healthcare. A well-known example is that of carbon pricing, a climate policy which can have regressive effects in some contexts. As another example, climate change induced heatwaves are disproportionately likely to impact poorer individuals who typically have more constrained access to healthcare, physical jobs in outdoor conditions, and through indirectly driving up food prices. To foster an effective and sustainable transition to low-carbon and resilient economies, policymakers need to ensure individuals do not lose more from climate policies than they already lose from the effects of climate change, but instead benefit from them. -
31/08/2023
Blog post
Synergising Sustainable Development Goals Finance with Climate Finance
Sustainable development and climate change are two pressing and interconnected issues that countries have committed to address at the international level. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) including climate action, at its core was adopted by the United Nations (UN) in 2015. The same year, the Paris Agreement was adopted by Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Both instruments have clear global and national targets in the medium- and long-term that are still far from being met. -
23/06/2023
Foreword of the week
Better EU data for better climate action
Twelve EU Member States have started implementing new budgetary processes to help align their public budgets with climate objectives. Green budget tagging, a prominent tool, can provide a clear picture of the share of a national budget that is aligned, or runs counter, with the national climate strategy. France publishes its annual green budget every year and now, for the first time in 2023, the government intends to use its data for the preparation of the draft budget law. -
15/06/2023
Climate Report
Greener, better, stronger: Factors for the successful implementation of green budgeting in EU Member States
National budgets, as the main driver of public action, need to be ‘greened’ by governments to achieve the transition to low-carbon, climate-resilient, and sustainable economies. That is, budgeting processes need to ensure sufficient funds are directed towards green activities and are directed away from environmentally harmful ones.
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09/11/2022
Climate Report
The economic implications of the transition to a low-carbon and resilient economy: an LTS dashboard for Finance Ministers
Long term national climate strategies, such as Long-Term Strategies (LTS) published to the UNFCCC, are key documents developed by governments to envision the transition to a low-carbon and climate resilient economy at the 2050 (or later) time-horizon. As of the beginning of COP 27 in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, on November 2022, 55 countries had submitted an LTS to the UNFCCC, answering renewed calls for countries to develop such strategies at COP 26. It is expected that additional LTS will be published shortly. -
19/01/2022
Blog post
Turn green budgets into green AND social budgets?
Number of climate public policies have social impacts, and conversely. To foster the consideration of these joint climate and social effects in the development of public policies, actors are calling to turn the increasingly popular climate budget tagging exercises into climate AND social budget tagging exercises. Is it a good idea? Chloé Boutron and Solène Metayer, who attempted the exercise, are sharing their insights.