Energy subsidies : lessons learned in assessing their impact and designing policy reforms / edited by Anja von Moltke, Colin McKee and Trevor Morgan ; with a forword by Klaus Töpfer.

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The need to reform energy subsidies was one of the pressing issues highlighted at the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Many types of subsidy, especially those that encourage the production and use of fossil fuel, and other non-renewable forms of energy, are harmful to the environment. They can also have high financial and economic costs, and often only bring few benefits to the people for whom they are intended. The book provides an analytical framework which aims to set the scene for the detailed discussion of energy-subsidy issues at the country level. It considers how subsidies are defined, how they can be measured, how big they are and how their effects can be assessed. A more detailed discussion of methodological approaches to the assessment of the economic, environmental and social effects of subsidies and their reform is contained in the Annex.

Front cover; About the authors; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; The United Nations Environment Programme; Executive summary; 1. Introduction; 2. Analytical framework; 3. Energy subsidies in OECD countries; 4. Energy subsidies in the Czech and Slovak Republics; 5. Energy subsidies in Russia; 6. Electricity subsidies in India; 7. Oil subsidies in Indonesia; 8. Energy subsidies in Korea; 9. Energy subsidy reform in Iran; 10. LPG subsidies in Senegal; 11. The impact of removing energy subsidies in Chile; 12. Analysis of the findings of country case studies

13. Designing and implementing energy subsidy reformsAnnex. Methodological approaches to analysing energy subsidy reform; Abbreviations; References; Back cover

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