Green Budgeting information (GB information) is compiled during the later stages of the budget preparation process. That is why its direct practical effects on the budget policy planning of the current year is small.   However, as this compiled GB information is reported to policymakers and the public, it has increased awareness and transparency regarding the link between budget and sustainability issues and has the potential to guide budget decision making in the subsequent years. No comprehensive evaluations have been carried out regarding the size and the more precise nature of this effect. However, one example, of this effect is related to environmentally harmful subsidies. There is anecdotal evidence that the reporting on environmentally harmful subsidies and the following media examination of this information has helped in its part to break political taboos in relation to certain energy subsidies. Now, the appropriateness of these subsidies in relation to government goals is a normal political discussion item, whereas back in the day discussing them was in places much more difficult (because of lobbying etc.).