Uploaded subsidy-related resources, whether via actual file upload or link to resource on another website.
Publication or article
Commission
of the European Communities, Commission Staff Working Paper. Wide
ranging and detailed analysis of public support to various energy
sources. Assembled from existing sources, so some gaps are likely. Is
an update in the works?
The European Union's Energy Support Programs: Promoting Sustainability or Pollution?
Antony Froggatt for Greenpeace. Reviews environmental effects of EU energy support programs and identifies actions the EU and member states should take to reduce the environmental and fiscal impacts of these programs. EUROPEAN UNION MEMBER STATES
Energy Subsidies in the European Union: A Brief Overview
Matthew Savage with Paul Baruya and Jack Cunningham for the European Environment Agency. Reviews subsidy types, estimation techniques, and benefits of reform within the EU context.
Worldwatch Paper #133: Paying the Piper: Subsidies, Politics, and the Environment
David Malin Roodman. Worldwatch Institute. Very useful history of perverse
subsidies and delineation of the political factors that make them so
difficult to reform. (You can purchase full paper).
Subsidy Reform: Doing More to Help the Environment by Spending Less on Activities that Harm It
Ronald Steenblik, OECD. Presented at "Workshop 3b: Producing more with less," during Fifty Years of the IUCN - World Conservation Union at Fountainebleau, France, November 1998.
Subsidies and Sustainable Rural Energy Services: Can We Create Incentives Without Distorting Markets?
Douglas F. Barnes and Jonathan
Halpern, The World Bank. Paper analyzes the difficulties in trying to
extend basic energy services to poor or remote populations in an
efficient manner. They note many examples where substantial funding has
subsidized wealthier members of the population rather than the poor as
originally planned.
Environmental Tax Reform: Using the Tax System to Protect the Environment and Promote Employment
Clive Hamilton, Kai Schlegelmilch,
Andrew Hoerner, Janet Milne. Tela, Australian Conservation Foundation.
General introduction to the challenges and promise of environmental tax
reform.
Subsidy Reform - Moving Towards Sustainability
Wolfgang Irrek, Wuppertal Institute
for Climate, Environment, Energy. Includes discussion of subsidies to
nuclear liability in Europe. Posted with permission of the author.
Memorandum on the Need to Improve Internal Transparency and Participation in the WTO
(Word Document). Written by 10
NGOs: The Third World Network, Oxfam International, Public Services
International, WWF International, The Center for International
Environmental Law, Focus on the Global South, The Institute for
Agriculture and Trade Policy, The Africa Trade Network, The
International Gender and Trade Network, and The Tebtebba International
Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights.
NGO Guidelines for Promoting National Reforms of Environmentally Harmful Subsidies
European Environmental Bureau with the assistance of its working group on Environmental Tax Reform. Guidance manual for NGOs on why they should promote subsidy reform and strategies for doing so successfully. Includes brief overviews of environmentally harmful subsidies in HUNGARY, CZECH REPUBLIC, POLAND, AND GERMANY.