Bhubaneswar, Feb. 18 -- Bhubaneswar: While presenting the State budget 2020-21 in Odisha Assembly on Tuesday, Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari also introduced the Climate Budget which aims to keep track of the government expenditure made for climate change or to support mitigation and adaption actions to address climate change.

The Finance minister said, "We propose to introduce a document on Climate Budget to provide a brief account of tracking climate public expenditure. Odisha is the first State in the country to bring out such disclosure."

According to sources, the State government has proposed the Climate budget to outline the current climate change relevance and sensitivity of public expenditure in the sector. With this, the gover...