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
In the context of the Italian Presidency of the G7, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International Cooperation (MAECI) hosted a workshop on environmentally harmful subsidies in Rome. The
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
This paper by Theodoros Zachariadis sets out a proposal for a fiscally neutral green tax reform in Cyrpus including the gradual implementation of a carbon tax in sectors not subject
This article by Camila Gramkow and Annela Anger-Kraavi explores the extent to which fiscal policies could contribute to Brazil’s pledge for absolute reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to greening
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