Power, Gender and Fossil-fuel Subsidy Reform in India
This paper explores the link between fossil-fuel subsidies and gender in India. It focuses on the likely gender impacts of reform across cooking, lighting, pumping and transport fuels.
"Mark Halle, vice president of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, says getting the corporate world to think long-term about the environment is key as the seeking of short-term results is incompatible with the requirements of sustainable development."
"A study by the Global Subsidies Initiative says scrapping fuel subsidies will result in aggregate increases in GDP."
A look at the new board for IISD-ELA.
Russian-language article covering the launch of one of our reports on government support to upstream oil & gas in Russia.