Download or read book Environmentally Harmful Subsidies Policy Issues and Challenges written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2003-09-05 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the OECD Workshop on Environmentally Harmful Subsidies, November 2002. For the first time, experts from a variety of backgrounds had the opportunity to take stock of and share technical knowledge of subsidies and their impacts.

Download or read book Environmentally Harmful Subsidies Challenges for Reform written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses politically-feasible reform strategies that can be used to combat environmentally harmful subsidies.

Download or read book Paying the Polluter written by Frans H. Oosterhuis and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrating how subsidy reform may contribute to a better environment, support fiscal reform and address social and economic objectives, this authoritative book will appeal to policy makers and their advisors all over the world. It will also be a use

Download or read book Reforming Environmentally Harmful Subsidies written by Annegrete Bruvoll and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report discusses the theoretical principles for an efficient environmental and distribution policy and offers a comprehensive survey of experiences from policy reforms in different countries. The reform survey forms a background to recommendations for implementation of sustainable policy reforms, taking care of environmental, economic and distributional concerns. It particularly brings in the Nordic experiences, both to enlighten the problems with environmentally harmful subsidies in these countries, and to discuss what can be learned from the experiences in a broader international context. The analysis has been carried out during the period October 2010 - May 2011. The study was carried out by Vista Analyse AS and commissioned by the Nordic Council of Ministers for the Environment.

Download or read book Reforming Environmentally Harmful Subsidies written by Annegrete Bruvoll and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Reforming environmentally harmful subsidies: How to counteract distributional impacts The report discusses the theoretical principles for an efficient environmental and distribution policy and offers a comprehensive survey of experiences from policy reforms in different countries. The reform survey forms a background to recommendations for implementation of sustainable policy reforms, taking care of environmental, economic and distributional concerns. It particularly brings in the Nordic experiences, both to enlighten the problems with environmentally harmful subsidies in these countries, and to discuss what can be learned from the experiences in a broader international context. The analysis has been carried out during the period October 2010 - May 2011. The study was carried out by Vista Analyse AS and commissioned by the Nordic Council of Ministers for the Environment

Download or read book Detox Development written by Richard Damania and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clean air, land, and oceans are critical for human health and nutrition and underpin much of the world's economy. Yet they suffer from degradation, poor management, and overuse due to government subsidies. 'Detox Development: Repurposing Environmentally Harmful Subsidies' examines the impact of subsidies on these foundational natural assets. Explicit and implicit subsidies--estimated to exceed US$7 trillion per year--not only promote inefficiencies but also cause much environmental harm. Poor air quality is responsible for approximately 1 in 5 deaths globally. And as the new analyses in this report show, a significant number of these deaths can be attributed to fossil fuel subsidies. Agriculture is the largest user of land worldwide, feeding the world and employing 1 billion people, including 78 percent of the world's poor. But it is subsidized in ways that promote inefficiency, inequity, and unsustainability. Subsidies are shown to drive the deterioration of water quality and increase water scarcity by incentivizing overextraction. In addition, they are responsible for 14 percent of annual deforestation, incentivizing the production of crops that are cultivated near forests. These subsidies are also implicated in the spread of zoonotic and vector-borne diseases, especially malaria. Finally, oceans support the world's fisheries and supply about 3 billion people with almost 20 percent of their protein intake from animals. Yet they are in a collective state of crisis, with more than 34 percent of fisheries overfished, exacerbated by open-access regimes and capacity-increasing subsidies. Although the literature on subsidies is large, this report fills significant knowledge gaps using new data and methods. In doing so, it enhances understanding of the scale and impact of subsidies and offers solutions to reform or repurpose them in efficient and equitable ways. The aim is to enhance understanding of the magnitude, consequences, and drivers of policy successes and failures in order to render reforms more achievable.

Download or read book Environmentally Harmful Subsidies written by Environmental Assessment Institute and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book OECD Sustainable Development Studies Subsidy Reform and Sustainable Development Economic Environmental and Social Aspects written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2006-04-19 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings present an overview of approaches for assessing subsidies and associated taxes and look at country experiences in reforming subsidies in agriculture, fisheries, industry and transport.

Download or read book ENVIRONMENTALLY Harmful Subsidies written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Improving the Environment through Reducing Subsidies Part I Summary and Conclusions Part II Analysis and Overview of Studies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1998-03-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the vast literature on the subject as well as on the available statistical data on subsidies, this publication summarises the results of an OECD study on how economic support measures actually affect the economy and, as a result, the environment.

Download or read book ENVIRONMENTALLY HARMFUL SUBSIDIES written by RICHARD. DAMANIA and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Environmentally Harmful Subsidies written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reform of environmentally harmful subsidies is a high priority for OECD countries. But is there agreement on a common definition of subsidies and on methods to measure them? Are enough reliable data and methods available to identify, measure and analyse environmentally harmful subsidies? These questions were addressed at an OECD workshop held in November 2002.

Download or read book Subsidy Reform and Sustainable Development written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development. This book was released on 2006 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subsidies are commonly used in OECD countries as public policy instruments to achieve specific socio-economic or environmental objectives, but they can often have unintended consequences, such as budget deficits, pollution, unemployment and trade distortions. This report contains the proceedings of an OECD workshop on subsidy reform, held in Paris in October 2005, which examined methods for assessing subsidies and associated taxes, and considered country experiences in reforming subsidies in the agriculture, fisheries, industry, and transport sectors.

Download or read book Environmentally Harmful Subsidies in Germany written by Alexander Schrode and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Regulation of Environmentally Harmful Fossil Fuel Subsidies written by Henok Asmelash and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmentally harmful fossil fuel subsidies were notably absent from efforts to enhance the mutual supportiveness of trade and environment in the multilateral trading system. However, a combination of several factors has recently propelled the reform of such subsidies into prominence on the trade and environment agenda. The recently launched initiative to negotiate a plurilateral Agreement on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability (ACCTS) represents the latest and most ambitious of the growing number of initiatives to discipline fossil fuel subsidies in the WTO. This article examines the factors that brought fossil fuel subsidies to prominence and the prospects of the ACCTS initiative to introduce binding rules on fossil fuel subsidies. The article argues that such an initiative is long overdue, but it faces significant hurdles to succeed. Drawing on past and present intergovernmental initiatives to tackle environmentally harmful subsidies, the article highlights the key challenges on the road ahead and suggests possible ways forward.

Download or read book Improving the Environment through Reducing Subsidies Part I Summary and Conclusions Part II Analysis and Overview of Studies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1998-04-22 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Substantial amounts of money continue to be spent in OECD Member countries on measures to support agricultural, energy, transportation and industrial activities. Many of these support measures encourage the emission of environmentally-harmful ...

Download or read book A Toolbox for Reforming Environmentally Harmful Subsidies in Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Europe, public authorities are spending several hundred billion euro each year in subsidies that may harm the environment. This spending aims to meet a range of non-environmental objectives, such as economic and social goals. Nevertheless, such environmentally harmful subsidies (EHS) counter agreed environmental policy objectives. This spending is often a legacy of old policies and usually the money could be better spent to deliver economic, social and environmental objectives more coherently. For many years, efforts to reform and progressively phase out EHS have been ad hoc in Europe and elsewhere. These efforts have only been partially successful since a broad political consensus across a range of policy areas is required. In principle, everyone agrees that government actions should not harm the environment. In practice, however, this can mean difficult discussions on how to deliver a range of non-environmental government objectives, and often there are losers as well as winners of reforms. While there are many good examples of reform, the potential to phase out EHS is still significant, allowing some of this public money to be freed up. The pressure for reform has increased since the adoption of the Paris Agreement at the international level and the European Green Deal at the EU level. As a result, many initiatives have emerged to accelerate the EU's green and economic transition, which has given new impetus to EHS reforms that can significantly contribute to reaching environmental objectives. This report helps facilitate the EHS reform process by providing a toolbox consisting of examples and case studies to support national discussion on EHS reform. It recognises the need to look at why subsidies currently exist, the distributional effects of reforming them and the potential economic, social and environmental impacts.