Energy subsidies : lessons learned in assessing their impact and designing policy reforms /

The need to reform energy subsidies was one of the pressing issues highlighted at the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Many types of subsidy, especially those that encourage the production and use of fossil fuel, and other non-renewable forms of energy, are harmful to the environment. They c...

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Corporate Author: United Nations Environment Programme
Other Authors: Moltke, Anja von, McKee, Colin, Morgan, Trevor
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Sheffield, Eng. : Greenleaf, 2004.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Front cover; About the authors; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; The United Nations Environment Programme; Executive summary; 1. Introduction; 2. Analytical framework; 3. Energy subsidies in OECD countries; 4. Energy subsidies in the Czech and Slovak Republics; 5. Energy subsidies in Russia; 6. Electricity subsidies in India; 7. Oil subsidies in Indonesia; 8. Energy subsidies in Korea; 9. Energy subsidy reform in Iran; 10. LPG subsidies in Senegal; 11. The impact of removing energy subsidies in Chile; 12. Analysis of the findings of country case studies
  • 13. Designing and implementing energy subsidy reformsAnnex. Methodological approaches to analysing energy subsidy reform; Abbreviations; References; Back cover