This paper provides a detailed explanation how the law of the World Trade Organization regulates environmental subsidies with a focus on renewable energy subsidies.
This is the first edition of the India Energy Subsidy Review, a biannual publication of the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s (IISD) Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI).
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in partnership with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI), is organizing a technical workshop on “Reforming Fossil Fuel Subsidies for an I
The Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) and the The Graduate Institute Geneva - Centre for International Environmental Studies are hosting an event on 'Clean energy subsidies and the global trading system".
Fossil-fuel subsidies matter: for sustainable development; for government budgets; for the poor; for women; and for the environment. Subsidies amounted to $544 billion (2012) and are largest in MENA and Southeast Asia.
In the first dispute on renewable energy to come to World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement, the domestic content requirement of Ontario’s feed-in tariff was challenged as a discriminatory investment-related measure and as a prohibited import substitution subsidy.
This Green Budget Germany (GBG) study commissioned by the Deutscher Naturschutzring (DNR) is an analysis of the comprehensive literature available on environmentally harmful subsidies and financial incentives.
A Schumpeterian case can be made for boosting Green Growth in a global economic crisis.
Numbers ranging from half a trillion to two trillion dollars have been cited in recent years for global subsidies for fossil fuels. How are these figures calculated and why are they so different?
The green economy in North America is at a critical crossroads. Will it foster a new wave of economy-wide innovation, employment, and green growth, or will green sectors remain a niche within an overall “brown” economy?