Energy
News
Land grab: How agri-subsidies encourage Irish farmers to cut back on nature
Irish farmers continue to see annual payments penalised for maintaining biodiversity hotspots despite concerns raised by the State over the climate and biodiversity crises.
‘Greta was right’: Trio of reports warns world at risk of squandering green recovery opportunity
Greta Thunberg’s accusation that world leaders are guilty of ‘blah, blah, blah’ in the face of the escalating climate crisis is ‘spot on’, according to a trio of new reports released today, which warn the opportunity provided by the coronavirus crisis to introduce sweeping fossil fuel subsidy reform and ambitious green stimulus packages is being squandered.
Consider a single carbon tax to make net zero work, economists say
Moving the economy to net zero – emitting less carbon dioxide than it consumes – will be messy and expensive unless the government has a radical rethink about how to simplify its approach to taxing greenhouse gas production.
Reports
Cutting Europe’s lifelines to coal – Tracking subsidies in 10 countries (ODI)
This report by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) reviews subsidies to coal in 10 countries that produce 84% of Europe’s energy-related greenhouse gas emissions: France, the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece,
The impact of energy taxes and carbon pricing on the affordability of domestic energy (OECD)
Energy affordability can be defined as a household’s ability to pay for necessary levels of energy use within normal spending patterns. This OECD report uses household level data covering 20
Institutional Policy and Economic Impacts of Energy Subsidies Removal in East Asia (ERIA)
This study by the Economic Research Insitute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) explores the impact of energy subsidies and provides policy recommendations to gradually phase out energy subsidies in
