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  • Incorporating Environmental and Climate Considerations into Business Cases

    Topics:
    • Finance, 
    • Public expenditure guidance

    Date published: 11 September 2025

    This guidance and related documents have been produced to help appraisers meet their responsibility to consider appropriately environmental and climate impacts in the development of all programme and project business cases.

    As this continues to be a rapidly evolving and wide-ranging area, the guidance may need to be updated from time to time. Users should therefore regularly refer to this page for the latest version of these documents.

    This guidance is intended to complement the existing suite of guidance elsewhere on the Better Business Cases NI webpage and there remains a need to consider other impacts formerly under the umbrella of “sustainable development”, such as equality, health, social inclusion and rural, as well as economic impacts in business cases.

    Documents

    • Incorporating Environmental and Climate Considerations into Business CasesAdobe PDF (549.65 KB)
    • Quick Reference Guide for Incorporating Environmental and Climate Considerations into Business CasesAdobe PDF (224.75 KB)
    • Incorporating Environmental and Climate Considerations into Business Cases Summary SlidesAdobe PDF (1.54 MB)
    • DoF Emissions Calculator Worked Example of a PV (solar panel) installation projectMicrosoft Excel (311.81 KB)
    • DoF Emissions Calculator Template for a PV (solar panel) installation projectMicrosoft Excel (macros enabled) (200 KB)
    • Options Framework, with Green Solution - Template AMicrosoft Excel (macros enabled) (160.25 KB)
    • Options Framework, with Green Solution - Template BMicrosoft Excel (macros enabled) (64.96 KB)

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