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16 October 2017 – For years, China has been using subsidies and taxation to build its solar power equipment industries – and as a result, it dominates world markets. Now
16 October 2017 – For years, China has been using subsidies and taxation to build its solar power equipment industries – and as a result, it dominates world markets. Now
Fossil fuel subsidies are a key barrier for economic development and climate change mitigation. While the plunge in international fuel prices has increased the political will to introduce fossil fuel
Keeping temperature change below 2°C will require leaving large reserves of fossil fuels unextracted. Om this article, researchers from Resources for the Future (RFF) assess alternative policies to achieve this
The environmental argument behind fossil fuel subsidy reform is strong, particularly among international finance institutions wishing to support ‘transformational’ low-carbon development. However, supporting reform in practice has often met methodological
This guidebook supports countries who intend to undertake self- or peer review of fossil fuel subsidies by clearly explaining the different elements of a review and providing case studies as
This paper, featured in the Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, presents the necessity of having sufficient finances to implement measures contained within Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Based on a
29 August 2017 – During July and August, several countries and federal states took steps towards enhancing their emissions trading systems (ETS), including through establishing a new ETS, and increasing the
A major obstacle to the more widespread use of energy taxation is the concern that energy taxes may be regressive, hitting the poor harder than the rich. Evidence is surprisingly
Company cars form a large proportion of the car fleet in many OECD countries and are also influential in determining the composition of the wider vehicle fleet. When employees provided
Proposals to increase environmentally related taxes are often challenged on competitiveness grounds given concerns that certain sectors might decline domestically if a country introduces environmentally related taxes unilaterally. Furthermore, environmental
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