Sustainability in Public Policymaking Through Accountable Environmental Budget Reallocation

Purpose. Budget reallocation can leave environmental duties unresolved even when project accounts balance. Approach. A purposive literature synthesis, a limited supplementary search and a synthetic five-year case inform an audit of responsibility, prospective coverage and historical terms. Findings. A reconstructed checker matched eight stipulated case outputs and passed 24 internal consistency checks. The worked case illustrates supported prospective coverage for a restricted binding set alongside an owned shortfall for a discretionary emissions target. Contribution. The audit specifies records for reconstructing duty dispositions, coverage intervals, historical terms and response ownership. Limits. Shared AI-assisted development of the cases and checker limits the evidence to internal consistency. Independent assessment and field testing remain necessary.