This report by the German Environment Agency (UBA) estimates that environmentally harmful subsidies in Germany amounted to 57 billion euros. The majority of these subsidies, worth 28.6 billion euros, are
This report by Green Budget Europe (GBE), CEE BankWatch and European Environment Bureau (EEB) involved an assessment of the 2016 European Semester Country Reports among network of members and national
In December 2013, China and the United States announced that they would undertake a reciprocal peer review of their fossil-fuel subsidies under the auspices of the G20. These peer reviews were
If we aim to reduce global emissions in order to limit global warming to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels, then the energy sector is of paramount importance. A critical
This report by the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) together with partners in Bangladesh, India and Nigeria explores the impacts of fossil fuel subsidy reform on poor women. There has been
Indonesia’s electricity sector faces a number of challenges, notably the need to meet rising demand for electricity, to serve consumers in remote regions and meet objectives to increase the share
This report from the World Bank, Ecofys and Vivid Economics provides an up-to-date overview of existing and emerging carbon pricing instruments around the world, including national and sub-national initiatives, and corporate
Pricing carbon is one of the most effective and lowest-cost ways of reducing CO2 emissions. This OECD report presents the first full analysis of the use of carbon pricing on
More stringent carbon pricing policy leads to greater emissions reductions. This report by Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission seeks to provide governments with a common, consistent framework for comparing the stringency of
This report by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) examines the role that policy crediting (i.e. crediting emission reductions from the implementation of a policy action or components of
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