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| − | <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'"><span id="1271945529638S" style="display: none"> </span>GTZ Position (Subsidies….A Think Piece; Fuel Price Index; Access for All – Illusions and Solutions; REN21 etc.): Mehr Transparenz über Kosten und Preise ist die Voraussetzung für eine vermehrte Diskussion/Partizipation und kann zum Abbau von Subventionen führen. Es gibt zwar viele Lobbygruppen, die ein Interesse an Intransparenz haben. Dennoch nutzt die Transparenz der Politik letztlich, weil sie damit zusätzliche Argumente für den Abbau von Subventionen erhält. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'">In DE wurde mit dem 20. Subventionsbericht (2003) ebenfalls eine Neuabgrenzung der Finanzhilfen vorgenommen, die den Regelungen der EU-Energiesteuerrichtlinie (RiLi 2003/96/EG) entspricht und für mehr Transparenz sorgt.</span> | + | = <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'"><span id="1271945529638S" style="display: none"> </span></span>Further Information<br/> = |
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| − | <u>Siehe dazu auch</u>: '''<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb">GSI/UNEP, April 2010: “[http://www.globalsubsidies.org/files/assets/transparency_ffs.pdf Gaining Traction: The importance of transparency in accelerating the reform of fossil-fuel subsidies]” <o:p></o:p></span>''' | + | '''<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: en-us" lang="EN-US">Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) - "The Effects of Fossil-Fuel Subsidy Reform: A review of modelling and empirical studies"</span>'''<span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: en-us" lang="EN-US">The Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) releases the publication of Jennifer Ellis’ paper “The Effects of Fossil-Fuel Subsidy Reform: A review of modelling and empirical studies.” This is the second paper to be published in the series Untold Billions: Fossil-fuel subsidies, their impacts and the path to reform. Subsidies are powerful instruments and when granted to fossil fuels, which are at the heart of all modern economies, subsidies have impacts throughout the economy, society and environment. Understanding the complex trade-offs between the different impacts of subsidy reform is a challenge for any government considering phasing out fossil-fuel subsidies. In this report, Jennifer Ellis provides a detailed literature review, focusing on the six modeling studies in the last 20 years that have attempted to analyze global impacts of subsidies for all fuels. The studies mostly considered effects on greenhouse gas emissions and gross domestic product, but very little of the work has considered other environmental impacts or social impacts. The paper highlights a number of areas where further research should be undertaken but concludes that there is already enough evidence to demonstrate the significant environmental and economic benefits of phasing out fossil-fuel subsidies, and recommends that policy-makers do not delay in beginning the reform process.</span> |
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| − | '''Transparency as a foundation for reform'''
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| − | <u>Transparency can influence reform in at least four ways (Hale, 2008):</u> | + | <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: en-us" lang="EN-US">'''EARTH TRACK: EIA Energy Subsidy Estimates: A Review of Assumptions and Omissions''' </span> |
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| − | 1. by institutionalizing public discourse: the act of disclosure starts a dialogue between the discloser and
| + | <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: en-us" lang="EN-US">This Review provides a detailed look at gaps in federal tracking of energy subsidies in the United States. In addition to evaluating the research approach used by the US '''Energy Information Administration (EIA)''', the Review assesses how key assumptions and omissions in EIA's work resulted in a substantial undercounting of federal energy subsidies and an inaccurate portrayal of subsidy distribution across fuels. EIA estimates are also placed in the context of other assessments of domestic energy subsidies conducted over the past thirty years.</span> |
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| − | 2. by compelling actors to tell the truth, making it difficult for discourse to be manipulated by one “loud,”
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| − | 3. by cutting through the flood of information and often contradictory claims to focus attention on facts;
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| − | In considering the extent to which improving transparency could assist reform, the key consideration appears
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| − | Improved information about fossil-fuel subsidies, in particular, can help governments meet their reform
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| − | '''<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: en-us">Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) - "The Effects of Fossil-Fuel Subsidy Reform: A review of modelling and empirical studies"</span>'''<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: en-us"> The Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) releases the publication of Jennifer Ellis’ paper “The Effects of Fossil-Fuel Subsidy Reform: A review of modelling and empirical studies.” This is the second paper to be published in the series Untold Billions: Fossil-fuel subsidies, their impacts and the path to reform. Subsidies are powerful instruments and when granted to fossil fuels, which are at the heart of all modern economies, subsidies have impacts throughout the economy, society and environment. Understanding the complex trade-offs between the different impacts of subsidy reform is a challenge for any government considering phasing out fossil-fuel subsidies. In this report, Jennifer Ellis provides a detailed literature review, focusing on the six modeling studies in the last 20 years that have attempted to analyze global impacts of subsidies for all fuels. The studies mostly considered effects on greenhouse gas emissions and gross domestic product, but very little of the work has considered other environmental impacts or social impacts. The paper highlights a number of areas where further research should be undertaken but concludes that there is already enough evidence to demonstrate the significant environmental and economic benefits of phasing out fossil-fuel subsidies, and recommends that policy-makers do not delay in beginning the reform process.<o:p></o:p></span>
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Further Information
Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) - "The Effects of Fossil-Fuel Subsidy Reform: A review of modelling and empirical studies"The Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) releases the publication of Jennifer Ellis’ paper “The Effects of Fossil-Fuel Subsidy Reform: A review of modelling and empirical studies.” This is the second paper to be published in the series Untold Billions: Fossil-fuel subsidies, their impacts and the path to reform. Subsidies are powerful instruments and when granted to fossil fuels, which are at the heart of all modern economies, subsidies have impacts throughout the economy, society and environment. Understanding the complex trade-offs between the different impacts of subsidy reform is a challenge for any government considering phasing out fossil-fuel subsidies. In this report, Jennifer Ellis provides a detailed literature review, focusing on the six modeling studies in the last 20 years that have attempted to analyze global impacts of subsidies for all fuels. The studies mostly considered effects on greenhouse gas emissions and gross domestic product, but very little of the work has considered other environmental impacts or social impacts. The paper highlights a number of areas where further research should be undertaken but concludes that there is already enough evidence to demonstrate the significant environmental and economic benefits of phasing out fossil-fuel subsidies, and recommends that policy-makers do not delay in beginning the reform process.
-> Download at: http://www.globalsubsidies.org/en/research/economic-social-and-environmental-effects
EARTH TRACK: EIA Energy Subsidy Estimates: A Review of Assumptions and Omissions
This Review provides a detailed look at gaps in federal tracking of energy subsidies in the United States. In addition to evaluating the research approach used by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), the Review assesses how key assumptions and omissions in EIA's work resulted in a substantial undercounting of federal energy subsidies and an inaccurate portrayal of subsidy distribution across fuels. EIA estimates are also placed in the context of other assessments of domestic energy subsidies conducted over the past thirty years.
-> Read more:http://earthtrack.net/files/uploaded_files/EIA%20subsidy%20review%20final_17Mar10.pdf
IMF Note - Petroleum Product Subsidies: Costly, Inequitable, and Rising
-> Read more: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/spn/2010/spn1005.pdf
-> Gaining Traction: The importance of transparency in accelerating the reform of fossil-fuel subsidies”
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