Anja Von Moltke, Colin McKee, and Trevor Morgan. United Nations Environment
Programme, 2004. (Earth Track peer review, not authorship).
The need to reform energy subsidies was one of the pressing issues highlighted at the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg in September 2002…
Prepared
for the United Nations Environment Programme under the auspices of the
Economics and Trade Branch's Working Group on Economic
Instruments. 2004.
Guidance manual for non-technical staff
in developing countries to enhance their understanding of the concepts
and applications for economic…
General
introduction to the measurement and concepts associated with government
subsidization of energy industries. Includes a review of a generic fuel
cycle which identifies the most common types of subsidies at each stage
and which energy types they tend to support within a global context.
Also…
Program
line review of federal fiscal subsidies to energy for fiscal year 2003, to support the work of the National Commission on Energy Policy. Aggregate subsidies were worth
between $37 and $64 billion to the energy sector. Analysis includes main tax expenditure and programmatic subsidies. Time…
This paper proposes two changes that I believe will make Tsunami relief efforts more effective. The first moves the detailed logistics system of the UN relief coordinator into the public domain. The objective of this change is to establish increased ability for outside groups to provide technology…
Examines
the political drivers behind subsidy proliferation in the US federal
system and a variety of options to improve transparency and
contestability of the subsidy programs. Paper contains ballpark
values for US federal subsidies by energy type, based on an update of US energy subsidy estimates…
Detailed review of state and federal subsidies, prepared for the Global Subsidies Initiative. Subsidy costs per unit fossil fuel or GHG displaced exceed $500 per mt of CO2-equivalent. Policy structures are duplicative and generally linked to production rather than to the carbon displacement…
Government policies should work in tandem with market forces to achieve an adequate energy supply mix that is cleaner and more diverse than what preceeded it. In reality, thousands of government policies in place around the world act counter to stated objectives regarding energy security…
