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Energy subsidies : lessons learned in assessing their impact and designing policy reforms /
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 c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sheffield, Eng. :
Greenleaf,
2004.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Notas: | "Published for and behalf of UNEP." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (183 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781909493414 1909493414 |