rationalize inefficient fossil fuel subsidies, establishing new green guidelines for multilateral development banks, coordinating …

consumption, but also environmental deterioration, thereby undermining energy conservation and emission abatement. Using fossil-fuel … subsidies as a proxy for the level of energy price distortions, this paper estimates the subsidy of 22 Chinese departments …

I develop a unique database of international fossil-fuel subsidies by examining country-specific patterns in carbon …

fossil fuel subsidies that encourage excessive consumption over the medium term”, i.e., removing the perverse subsidies …. Considering China's particular circumstances and the purposes of energy subsidies, the perverse fossil fuel subsidies in China … indicate that China's perverse fossil fuel subsidies amounted to CNY 509.22 billion in 2008, equivalent to 61.2% of total …

It is often argued that fossil fuel subsidies hamper the transition towards a sustainable energy supply as they …-out fossil fuel subsidies as found in prior studies. However, these benefits are only sustained to a small extent in the long … term, if dedicated climate policies are weak or nonexistent. Most remarkably we find that a removal of fossil fuel …

against the much larger and environmentally harmful fossil fuel subsidies. The main objective of this paper is to examine what … makes renewable energy subsidies vulnerable to WTO dispute, as compared to fossil fuel subsidies. …