Green budget approach and evaluation

The environment is a vital element for the people.The people who are in constant interaction with the environment directly or indirectly adversely affect the environment by economic activities. The ignoring of the capacity and limitation of the environment during the production or consumption activities paved the environmental problems experienced today. Duty to combat environmental issues which have been observed in the 20th century that common environmental problems of urbanization, population growth, global warming, reduction of biodiversity, the ozone layer depletion and environmental pollution have been uploaded to the state. These duties to the state have brought designing state's expenditures and state's governmental revenues in an environmental approach via budgets as a one of public policy tools to cope with environmental problems, in other words these duties to the state have brought new budget approach as green budgeting to agenda. At the first chapter of this thesisconceptional size of the budgets, environmental problems and new budgeting approaches will be discussed. At the second chapter, defining green budgeting, justification of green budgeting and the structure of the green budgets are the main topics included. At the third part as the latest chapter, explanations about green budget implementation in Germany, England, Norway and Turkey will be placed.