Though this specific bill is gone,
the report provides useful background on a variety of energy subsidies
that are either already enacted or regularly crop up in legislative
initiatives.
Annual Review of wasteful government programs across multiple sectors and the role this spending plays in the $521 billion deficit and a $7.1 trillion national debt.
Robert S. McIntyre and T.D. Coo
Nyugen, Citizens for Tax Justice. The latest of a series of detailed
assessments of the actual taxes paid by major US corporations and
corporate sectors, and the tax breaks that allow them to dramatically
reduce their federal tax liabilities. Energy is normally a big…
Mark
Kosmo, World Resources Institute. Review of subsidies to electricity,
coal, oil, and natural gas in 32 countries using primarily the
price-gap method.
Bjorn
Larsen, World Bank Publication. Larsen's empirical framework for
estimating the level of world fossil fuel subsidies and analyzing their
implications for carbon dioxide emissions.
(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.
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…
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?
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
Matthew Savage with Paul Baruya and Jack Cunningham
Posted on:
12/31/2008
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.
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).
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…
Clive Hamilton, Kai Schlegelmilch, Andrew Hoerner, Janet Milne
Posted on:
12/10/2008
Clive Hamilton, Kai Schlegelmilch,
Andrew Hoerner, Janet Milne. Tela, Australian Conservation Foundation.
General introduction to the challenges and promise of environmental tax
reform.
Wolfgang Irrek, Wuppertal Institute
for Climate, Environment, Energy. Includes discussion of subsidies to
nuclear liability in Europe. Posted with permission of the author.
(Word Document). Written by 10
NGOs: The Third World Network, Oxfam International, Public Services
International, WWF International, The Center for International
Environmental Law, Focus on the Global South, The Institute for
Agriculture and Trade Policy, The Africa Trade Network, The
International…
European
Environmental Bureau with the assistance of its working group on
Environmental Tax Reform. Guidance manual for NGOs on why they should
promote subsidy reform and strategies for doing so successfully.
Includes brief overviews of environmentally harmful subsidies in
HUNGARY, CZECH REPUBLIC…
European
Environmental Bureau with the assistance of its working group on
Environmental Fiscal Reform. Position paper delineating various
damaging subsidies within the EU, and pushing for their removal on
fiscal and environmental grounds.
