Overview
Lobbying Costs
150,000€
Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
5
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Green Budget Europe AISBL (GBE)
EU Transparency Register
74535104992-35 First registered on 14 Jan 2011
Goals / Remit
Green Budget Europe (GBE) is a Europe-wide initiative established to stimulate discussion and encourage progress on environmental fiscal reform (EFR) and on market-based instruments (MBIs) internationally, at European Union level, and in individual European states.
We disseminate information about and promote fiscal and budgetary policies that take climate, environment and sustainability issues into account and support partner organisations in their campaigns.
Our activities include:
• One-to-one meetings with political decision-makers and others influential in policy-making to make the shift from labour taxes to charging for pollution and resource use, ensuring social equity in the transition
• Bringing together stakeholders from different sectors and creating alliances to make space for dialogue and exchange
• Conducting and disseminating research and best practice on EFR to key stakeholders, our networks, and the wider public, as well as working on events to aid knowledge exchange.
We focus on environmental taxation, reform of environmentally harmful subsidies, emissions trading, green public procurement, border tax adjustments, environmental fees and charges, heavy vehicle charges, deposit-refund schemes, promotion of renewable energy, and many other innovative measures.
Much of our current work highlights the significant contribution environmental taxation and subsidy reform can make to fiscal consolidation, arguing that measures relating to the financial crisis should take sustainability criteria into account.
We also respond to and comment on ongoing political processes, and highlight potential windows of opportunity for EFR in the media, online and in print publications.Main EU files targeted
European Semester
Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)
Environmental Fiscal Reform (EFR)Address
Head Office
Rue du Trône 4
Brussels 1000
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 21 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date Ms Constanze Adolf 23 Feb 2017 22 Feb 2018 James NIX 23 Feb 2016 20 Feb 2017 Ms Constanze Adolf 16 Jan 2016 15 Jan 2017 James NIX 28 Feb 2015 23 Feb 2016 Ms Constanze Adolf 20 Jan 2015 15 Jan 2016 Ms Constanze Adolf 25 Jan 2014 20 Jan 2015 Ms Constanze Adolf 30 Jan 2013 19 Dec 2013 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Eero Yrjö-Koskinen (Managing Director)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Aldo Ravazzi-Douvan (President)
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
EEB - European Environment Bureau
Green Growth Knowledge Platform
Banktrack
Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy ReformMember organisations
http://green-budget.eu/members/
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
150,000€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Commission's expert group Greening the European Semester / Environmental Implementation Review#E02987 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=2987 #Observer #C
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
• One-to-one meetings with political decision-makers and others influential in policy-making to make the shift from labour taxes to charging for pollution and resource use, ensuring social equity in the transition
• Bringing together stakeholders from different sectors and creating alliances to make space for dialogue and exchange
• Conducting and disseminating research and best practice on EFR to key stakeholders, our networks, and the wider public, as well as working on events to aid knowledge exchange.Other activities
Promoting market-based instruments on European level and in member states.
Meetings
Meetings
5 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 21 Mar 2016 Location Brussels Subject Phasing out support to fossil fuels Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Grzegorz Radziejewski (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Mar 2016 Location Brussels Subject sustainable financing state of play Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič Portfolio Energy Union Attending - Peter van Kemseke (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Mar 2016 Location Brussels Subject EU Semester Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Miguel Gil Tertre (Cabinet member)
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Date 12 May 2015 Location Brussels Subject European Semester Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Valérie Herzberg (Cabinet member)
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Date 05 May 2015 Location European Commission –Brussels Subject Environmental aspects of the European semester Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President)
- Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists