Environmentally harmful subsidies : challenges for reform /

Subsidies are pervasive throughout OECD countries and much of this support is potentially harmful environmentally. This report presents sectoral analyses on agriculture, fisheries, water, energy and transport, proposing a checklist approach to identifying and assessing environmentally harmful subsid...

• Corporate Author: Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Paris : OECD, 2005
• Subjects: ECONOMIA DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE; DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE; PAISES DE LA OCDE; ECONOMIA AMBIENTAL; DESARROLLO SUSTENTABLE; ECODESARROLLO

Table of Contents:

• Executive Summary
• 1. Synthesis report on environmentally harmful subsidies: Introduction
• Definition and measurement of subsidies
• Assessment of environmental harmful subsidies
• Overcoming obstacles to the reform of environmentally harmful subsidies
• 2. When removing subsidies benefits the environment: developing a checklist based on the conditionality of subsidies: Introduction
• Subsidy-environmental linkages
• Merging theory with evidence
• Developing the checklist
• Appendix 2.1. Selected case studies
• Appendix 2.2. The role of elasticities
• 3. The political economy of environmentally harmful subsidies: Introduction
• The political economic framework
• The political economy of policy concessions: the demand side
• Constraints on rent seeking: the supply side
• Strategies for reform
• Annex. A stocktaking of OECD work on subsidies.