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Coal In Europe: Implications of Dismantled Subsidies.

(Table of Contents, Volume 23, Issue 6). Energy Policy, V. 23, No. 6. Full articles available only through journal publisher, but abstracts can be viewed.

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Reform of Coal Policies in Western and Central Europe: Implications for the Environment.

Ronald Steenblik and Panos Coroyannakis. Energy Policy, V. 23, No. 6, pp. 537-553. Full article only available through publisher.

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Removing Energy Subsidies in Developing and Transition Economies.

Matthew Saunders and Karen Schneider. Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics. June 2000. Australia is only one case in this international overview of problems with subsidies. AUSTRALIA, CANADA, UNITED STATES, JAPAN, EUROPEAN UNION, FORMER SOVIET UNION, EASTERN EUROPE, CHINA, INDONESIA, KOREA, THAILAND, INDIA, SOUTH AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST, MEXICO, ARGENTINA.

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Inventory of public aid granted to different energy sources.

Commission of the European Communities, Commission Staff Working Paper. Wide ranging and detailed analysis of public support to various energy sources. Assembled from existing sources, so some gaps are likely. Is an update in the works?

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The European Union's Energy Support Programs: Promoting Sustainability or Pollution?

Antony Froggatt for Greenpeace. Reviews environmental effects of EU energy support programs and identifies actions the EU and member states should take to reduce the environmental and fiscal impacts of these programs. EUROPEAN UNION MEMBER STATES

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Energy Subsidies in the European Union: A Brief Overview

Matthew Savage with Paul Baruya and Jack Cunningham for the European Environment Agency. Reviews subsidy types, estimation techniques, and benefits of reform within the EU context.

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Worldwatch Paper #133: Paying the Piper: Subsidies, Politics, and the Environment

David Malin Roodman. Worldwatch Institute. Very useful history of perverse subsidies and delineation of the political factors that make them so difficult to reform. (You can purchase full paper).

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Subsidy Reform: Doing More to Help the Environment by Spending Less on Activities that Harm It

Ronald Steenblik, OECD. Presented at "Workshop 3b: Producing more with less," during Fifty Years of the IUCN - World Conservation Union at Fountainebleau, France, November 1998.

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Subsidies and Sustainable Rural Energy Services: Can We Create Incentives Without Distorting Markets?

Douglas F. Barnes and Jonathan Halpern, The World Bank. Paper analyzes the difficulties in trying to extend basic energy services to poor or remote populations in an efficient manner. They note many examples where substantial funding has subsidized wealthier members of the population rather than the poor as originally planned.

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Environmental Tax Reform: Using the Tax System to Protect the Environment and Promote Employment

Clive Hamilton, Kai Schlegelmilch, Andrew Hoerner, Janet Milne. Tela, Australian Conservation Foundation. General introduction to the challenges and promise of environmental tax reform.

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