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Nordic Environmental Fiscal Reform

Nordic countries have successfully used environmental fiscal reform (subsidies, taxation and spending) as an economic recovery tool to boost revenues, economic growth and employment while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.

Brief April 15, 2021

International Best Practices: Estimating tax subsidies for fossil fuels in Canada

This report outlines international best practices in defining and estimating tax subsidies and other types of foregone government revenue.

Report December 14, 2020

Multilateral Regulatory Regimes and Plant Breeding

This policy brief reviews some of the issues that developing country governments should consider as they review national seed laws.

Brief September 16, 2020

The Sustainable Agriculture Transition: Technology options for low- and middle-income countries

This report reviews how technology is transforming food systems and how policy-makers and investors can best harness the use of modern technologies to bring transformative change.

Report July 30, 2020

Gender and Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform in Bangladesh: Findings and recommendations

The report examines from a gender perspective the impact of kerosene subsidies and their reform in Bangladesh. The report advocates that kerosene subsidy reform needs to be handled with care.

Report February 5, 2020

Gender and Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform in India: Findings and recommendations

The report examines the impacts of India’s subsidies to cooking gas—and their reform—from a gender perspective. It explores how liquified petroleum gas (LPG) subsidy policies and their reform affect women and girls in low-income households.

Report December 18, 2019

Energy Transition in Support of the Low-Carbon Development Initiative in Indonesia: Transport sector

Implementing an effective pricing mechanism is necessary for Indonesia to complete its landmark fuel subsidy reforms and prevent backsliding into expensive subsidy policies. The current pricing regime aims to deliver a public service but inadvertently contributes major social costs: air pollution and associated illness, greenhouse gas emissions and traffic congestion.

Report October 23, 2019

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