Green Book supplementary guidance: climate change and environmental valuation
Supplementary guidance to the Green Book covering the consideration of thenatural impactscapital ofand climateenvironmental changeimpacts in policy appraisal to ensure value for money of government spending.
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Accounting for the effects of climate change
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Update history
2025-04-08 15:03
Accounting for the effects of climate change supplementary Green Book guidance has been updated by Defra in consultation across government. The new guidance includes a set of standardised climate scenarios for government appraisal and a guide to applying climate impacts to traditional cost benefit analysis.
2024-05-16 12:31
Minor technical update to guidance, which fixes broken links and updates old references.
2022-11-18 13:30
New link to the Green Book and its collection of accompanying guidance and materials collection page to improve signposting.