Improving the Environment Through Reducing Subsidies

Improving the Environment Through Reducing Subsidies
Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Part 1: Summary and policy conclusions; Part 2: Analysis and overview of studies

Improving the Environment through Reducing Subsidies Part III: Case Studies

Improving the Environment through Reducing Subsidies Part III: Case Studies
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2000-01-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9264180184

This publication compiles eight case studies undertaken as part of an OECD study on how economic support measures actually affect the economy and, as a result, the environment. These case studies analyse the effects of particular support schemes and/or the possibilities for their reform.

Environmentally Harmful Subsidies Policy Issues and Challenges

Environmentally Harmful Subsidies Policy Issues and Challenges
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2003-09-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9264104496

Proceedings of the OECD Workshop on Environmentally Harmful Subsidies, November 2002. For the first time, experts from a variety of backgrounds had the opportunity to take stock of and share technical knowledge of subsidies and their impacts.

Greening the Budget

Greening the Budget
Author: J. Peter Clinch
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2002-01-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781781009918

'Greening the Budget offers a useful, and welcome, addition to the literature available to the environmental policymaker. The book can inspire policymakers to take a fresh look at old problems, help us to ask new questions and stimulate proposals for new solutions . . . Students of things environmental will find the book an inspiration for essay projects and research programs.' - Thorolfur Matthiasson, Environmental and Resource Economics Greening the Budget regards the fundamental cause of environmental degradation as government and market failure and proposes the use of budgets as an instrument of environmental policy to rectify this problem. The book focuses on the elements of the public budget which currently affect the environment and explores the scope for greening both revenue and expenditure through specific measures.

Paying the Polluter

Paying the Polluter
Author: Frans H. Oosterhuis
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2014-05-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 178254531X

Demonstrating how subsidy reform may contribute to a better environment, support fiscal reform and address social and economic objectives, this authoritative book will appeal to policy makers and their advisors all over the world. It will also be a use

Yearbook of International Cooperation on Environment and Development 1999-2000

Yearbook of International Cooperation on Environment and Development 1999-2000
Author: Helge Ole Bergesen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 814
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134055536

List of Contents * Current Issues and Key Themes * Agreements on Environment and Development Systematically listed key data and illustrations concerning the most important international agreements presented on the basis of information from the organizations in question and other sources, covering such matters as: objectives ? scope ? time and place of establishment ? status of participation ? affiliated instruments and organizations ? major activities ? secretariat ? finance ? rules and standards ? monitoring and implementation ? decision-making bodies ? key publications ? Internet sources. This edition includes the new Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in decision Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters and the Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade. * Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs), including UN specialized agencies objectives ? type of organization ? membership ? date of establishment ? secretariat ? activities ? decision-making bodies ? finance ? key publications ? Internet sources. * International Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) * objectives ? type of organization ? membership ? date of establishment ? secretariat ? activities ? budget ? key publications ? Internet sources. * Country Profiles Summaries of the performance and main commitments of 15 OECD countries in addition to Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria, South Africa, and Thailand. Originally published in 1999