The Policy Instruments for the Environment (PINE) database is maintained by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and contains information on environmentally related taxes, fees and charges, tradable
Mapping and Assessing the Performance of Extractive Industries (MAP-X) is an open data platform to map and assess the performance of extractive concessions and contracts in member countries. The MAP-X initiative
This article by Benjamin K. Sovacool provides a review of global energy subsidies—of definitions and estimation techniques, their type and scope, their drawbacks, and effective ways to reform them. The
16 March 2017 – Germany plans to use its G20 Presidency to nudge world leaders towards a global carbon price. Read the full article by BBC News.
18 March 2017, Baden Baden – G20 Finance Ministers met in Baden-Baden, Germany on 17-18 March. The communique adopted by Ministers dropped a reference on the readiness to finance measures
This catalogue produced by the Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea (MATTM) in response to a request by the Parliament is part of a wider effort on fiscal reform.
This book by World Bank staff and external contributors proposes a framework for understanding the political economy of subsidy reform and applies it to four in-depth country studies – the
This article by Michael L. Ross, Chad Hazlett, and Paasha Mahdavi uses new data to measure net taxes and subsidies for gasoline in almost all countries at the monthly level.
6 February 2017, Brussels – A recent report by the European Commission calls on EU member states to phase out tax breaks for company cars and the preferential tax treatment
This working paper by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) quantifies the effect of federal and state subsidies on US oil production, focusing on the more than 800 fields that have been
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