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
With the new gas discoveries in East Africa and in the Levantine Basin comes the need to better understand the gas value chain and how to structure complex and capital
Despite a growing consensus in favour of reform of costly and environmentally damaging energy price subsidies, many countries remain resistant. This VOX column by A. Asamoah, E. Hanedar and B.
This Ecorys study commissioned by the European Commission offers a systematic collection of experience from various countries on market-based instruments addressing resource efficiency. It identifies best practices, explores how taxes,
There is mounting evidence that fossil fuel subsidies are detrimental to economic, environmental, and social sustainability, as they tend to drain national budgets, encourage overconsumption of fossil fuels, and aggravate
This article by A Schuhbauer, R. Chuenpagdee, W. Cheung, K. Greer, and R. Sumaila in Marine Policy presents the first bottom-up analysis of the proportion of global marine fisheries subsidies
Fossil fuel subsidy reform has in recent years been addressed by international economic organizations including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The
This paper by D. Coady, I. Parry, L. Sears and B. Shang estimates fossil fuel subsidies and the economic and environmental benefits from reforming them. It mostly focuses on a
This paper by R. Sumaila, V. Lam, F. Le Manach, W. Swartz and D. Pauly published in Marine Policy aims to provides an updated estimate of global fisheries subsidies. It
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