Sentences with phrase «energy subsidy reform»

IEA, 2001: Energy subsidy reform and sustainable development challenges for policymakers.

Estimates for global energy subsidies in 2011 have been revised to US$ 4.2 trillion, more than double the US$ 2.0 trillion previously reported in a 2013 IMF book, Energy Subsidy Reform: Lessons and Implications.

issues related to energy subsidy reform and the challenges faced by policymakers, who must find ways to reduce direct energy subsidies without undermining domestic political support.

Even Iran, which was pricing gasoline at one fifth its market price, dramatically reduced its gasoline subsidies in December 2010 as part of broader energy subsidy reforms.

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Although the final tax reform policy keeps the subsidies in place, some market analysts have grown concerned that these developments — as well as regulatory hurdles for new wind projects — will prohibit or slow the rate of deployment of renewable energy by utilities in the U.S.

The price of what small sums will be given to Ukraine from the EU or, more likely the IMF, will be systemic reform — energy price rises, the ending of state subsidies for industries, and the cutting of state social benefits (among others), all of which will be politically catastrophic for whatever government introduces them.

Under Cuomo, the PSC has undertaken an ambitious reimagining of the utility industry, called Reforming the Energy Vision, has backed subsidies for renewable and nuclear energy and has set up a ratepayer - funded program to invest in clean energy technEnergy Vision, has backed subsidies for renewable and nuclear energy and has set up a ratepayer - funded program to invest in clean energy technenergy and has set up a ratepayer - funded program to invest in clean energy technenergy technology.

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While the entire system of grants, subsidies, tax loopholes and other incentives need to be reformed, a line item that needs to be looked into is funding for energy research, which accounts for 9 billion dollars.

«Carbon emissions: Energy - subsidy reform can be achieved with proper preparation, outside pressure.»

Reform of energy subsidies in oil - exporting countries can reduce carbon emissions and add years to oil exports, according to a new paper from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Iran's 2010 reform was welcomed by the IMF and, at least initially, by the Iranian public, while halving the world's largest energy - subsidy burden, valued at around $ 100 billion or a quarter of the 2010 gross domestic product.

The paper reviews the record of energy - subsidy reforms and argues that big exporters should reduce energy demand by raising prices, and that this can be done without undermining legitimacy of governments that depend on subsidies for political support.

Subsidy reform boosts revenue in India, Indonesia Phil Sharp, a former 10 - term congressman from Indiana and current president of the economic think tank Resources for the Future, said such critical examinations of energy subsidies and their broad societal effects are helpful in keeping the issue «out front» with policymakers.

While the analysis did not examine secondary effects of subsidies, Gaspar said the results are «qualitatively robust» and allow experts to «safely conclude that energy subsidies are very large and their reform will generate substantial benefits» for both governments and the people they represent.

The advantage of subsidy reform are significant and varied: appropriate energy prices would reduce global carbon emissions in 2013 by 21 % and fuel - related air pollution deaths by 55 %, while simultaneously boosting extra revenue of 4 % of global GDP and increasing social welfare by 2.2 % of global GDP.

Postscript, 5:25 p.m. ** Via Twitter, I was pointed to a Heritage Foundation blog post by Joel Griffith criticizing Young Conservatives for Energy Reform for supporting renewable - energy subsidies and taking a sizable grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, which focuses in part on addressing climate cEnergy Reform for supporting renewable - energy subsidies and taking a sizable grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, which focuses in part on addressing climate cenergy subsidies and taking a sizable grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, which focuses in part on addressing climate change.

In addition to the work in the World Energy Outlook, the IEA has provided input to the G - 20 and APEC since 2009, when G20 leaders took a major step toward reforming energy subsidies and committed to «rationalize and phase out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption», the IEA has provided input to the G - 20 and APEC in support of their commitEnergy Outlook, the IEA has provided input to the G - 20 and APEC since 2009, when G20 leaders took a major step toward reforming energy subsidies and committed to «rationalize and phase out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption», the IEA has provided input to the G - 20 and APEC in support of their commitenergy subsidies and committed to «rationalize and phase out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption», the IEA has provided input to the G - 20 and APEC in support of their commitments.

In September 2009, G20 leaders took a key step towards reforming energy subsidies at their summit in Pittsburgh, United States.

Doug Koplow, Subsidies in the U.S. Energy Sector: Magnitude, Causes, and Options for Reform (Cambridge, MA: Earth Track, November 2006).

- Energy Collective: From C20 to the G20: What We Need on Carbon Pricing and Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform.

Based on this study, countries already undergoing energy reforms (like Bangladesh, Indonesia, Morocco and Zambia) would especially benefit from SWAPs — the transfer of funds that normally go towards fossil fuel subsidies into sustainable energy investment, such as renewable energy and energy efficiency.

As part of the Nordic Clean Energy Week, this event will discuss the potential for reform of fossil fuel subsidies and reallocation of a proportion of the savings to fund the transition to clean eEnergy Week, this event will discuss the potential for reform of fossil fuel subsidies and reallocation of a proportion of the savings to fund the transition to clean energyenergy.

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Congressman Dave Camp (R - MI), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, introduced a tax reform bill earlier this week that removed all subsidies for oil, gas, coal, renewables and other energy technologies.

There's no mention of cap - and - dividend systems, or energy - subsidy reform, or the international finance and technology support systems that will be necessary if the Paris agreement is to deliver.

Members of the EU Parliament's energy committee have supported reform of energy markets to restrict subsidies for dirty fossil fuel power plants, but failed to reject new gas infrastructure, in two important votes on climate and energy today.

These economic reforms can and should include carbon pricing, creating more liquid and fungible energy markets arbitrated by price, dispatch and carbon and eliminated subsidies for fossil fuels.

The report also presents a Subsidy Reform Case, which assumes complete removal of fossil fuel subsidies in APEC by 2025, in order to see the impact of subsidy reform on the regional energy demand and CO2 emiSubsidy Reform Case, which assumes complete removal of fossil fuel subsidies in APEC by 2025, in order to see the impact of subsidy reform on the regional energy demand and CO2 emisReform Case, which assumes complete removal of fossil fuel subsidies in APEC by 2025, in order to see the impact of subsidy reform on the regional energy demand and CO2 emisubsidy reform on the regional energy demand and CO2 emisreform on the regional energy demand and CO2 emissions.

Reforming fossil fuel subsidies is never an easy task, with great political sensitivity attached to changing energy prices that can affect people's daily life.

Included in his reform package, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu shunned renewable energy subsidies that have artificially propped up otherwise failing solar panel companies.

An ambitious set of policy measures, including the rapid phase out of fossil fuel subsidies, CO2 prices rising to unprecedented levels, extensive energy market reforms, and stringent low - carbon and energy efficiency mandates would be needed to achieve this transition.

Can the international trade system reform fossil fuel subsidies to relieve costs, reduce pollution, improve energy security and tackle climate change?

The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has released a detailed list of renewable energy projects receiving government subsidies in the first half of 2009.

In the meantime, major oil producing governments are acting with a new sense of purpose in reforming energy subsidies as well as investing into the non-oil growth potential of their countries.

There's no mention of cap - and - dividend systems, or energy - subsidy reform, or the international finance and technology support systems that will be necessary if the Paris Agreement is to deliver.

These findings should be of interest to policy makers considering or implementing reforms to fossil fuel subsidies as well as readers following developments in global and regional energy markets.

Drawing on its global experience and extensive analysis of fossil fuel subsidies, the International Energy Agency (IEA) undertook this in - depth look at reforms of fossil fuel subsidies in Mexico and Indonesia.

Support is building for policies to encourage the growth of a globally competitive, subsidy independent clean tech sector in the United States, as moderate Republicans, industry insiders and analysts expressed keen interest in reforms that would drive production of cheaper, more innovative forms of energy.