Robert Repetto. The adequacy of Canadian and US mining companies' disclosures of material environmental information were found to be deficient, especially in the disclosure to investors of known material environmental risks and liabilities.
Produced by Revenue Watch of the Open Society Institute, the Center for Policy Studies at Central European University, and the International Budget Project. Guidance manual for how to track oil and gas revenues using government budget documents.
(Working Paper). Miles Light, University of Colorado. Final version published in Energy Policy, V. 20, No. 4, pp. 117-148, 1999. Final draft available only through publisher.
Matthew Saunders and Karen Schneider. Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics. AUSTRALIA, CANADA, UNITED STATES, JAPAN, EUROPEAN UNION, FORMER SOVIET UNION, EASTERN EUROPE, CHINA, INDONESIA, KOREA, THAILAND, INDIA, SOUTH AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST, MEXICO, ARGENTINA.
Doug Koplow, Dale Andrew, Jean Marc Burniaux, and Erkki Adorian
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(Word Document). Doug Koplow, Dale Andrew, Jean Marc Burniaux, and Erkki Adorian. OECD, Joint Working Party on Trade and Environment, September 2001. Also available in French.
Friends of the Earth, U.K. Briefing provides an overview of British privatization of nuclear fuel cycle facilities and the transfer of site liabilities to the taxpayer.
Center for Energy
Efficiency Russia, Igor Bashmakov. Paper derived from presentations on
Russian energy subsidies to the IEA. Provides review of energy pricing
in Russia, and arguments about how subsidies should be calculated.
Includes detailed information on district heating systems and on budget…
Karoly
Kiss, editor. Clean Air Action Group/Lelegzet Foundation. In addition
to subsidies to the energy sector, the report provides an overview of
government support to other activities that cause environmental harm,
such as agriculture, transport, chemicals, and construction.
Federal
Environmental Agency. The policy of subsidising coal mining exists on
borrowed time. Long-term subsidies for coal mining can be justified
neither on economic nor on environmental grounds.
Stefan Lechtenböhmer, Kora Kristof, and Wolfgang Irrek
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(In
German; Summary in English). Stefan Lechtenböhmer, Kora Kristof,
and Wolfgang Irrek. Wuppertal Institute. Detailed review of German
subsidies to brown coal (lignite). Quantifies support at a minimum of 1
billion Euros in direct support and an additional 3.5 billion in
externalities. Posted with…
Karl Storchmann. Beginning with the coal crisis of 1958, the survival of the German hard coal mining sector has been heavily dependent on subsidies for several decades.
Bettina Meyer. Environmentally Harmful Subsidies, Polish-German Seminar, Cracow, Poland, February 25-26, 2005. Data on German subsidies to the energy sector; discussion of barriers to subsidy reform.
Søren Dyck-Madsen, Danish Ecological Council. Assesses effects of shifting Danish tax base to resources and polluting behavior, with switchover fully implemented in 2010. Contains historical data on many Danish green fees.