Download or read book Mainstreaming Environment and Climate for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development written by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and published by United Nations. This book was released on 2016-01-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is designed as guidance for policymakers and practitioners to mainstream pro-poor environment and climate concerns into planning, budgeting and monitoring. Mainstreaming is achieved by putting poverty-environment issues at the heart of government—in other words, by taking these issues into mainstream economic decision-making processes, particularly the national and sub national planning and budgeting processes led by ministries of finance, planning and local government,and supported by ministries of environment.