This report summarizes the findings of a review aimed at understanding emerging approaches to energy subsidy reform, discerning trends, and identifying major strands of thinking and research in the field, as reflected in major policy and academic journals relevant to the subject. The review was initiated in early 2020 as …
This paper examines the cost of a range of national, regional and global mitigation policies and the corresponding incentives for countries to participate in ambitious international mitigation actions. The paper illustrates the scope for available instruments to strengthen these incentives and discusses ways to overcome barriers to the development of …
This paper reviews the literature on the fiscal policy instruments commonly used to reduce transport sector externalities. The findings show that congestion charges would reduce vehicle traffic by 9 to 12 percent and significantly improve environmental quality. The vehicle tax literature suggests that every 1 percent increase in vehicle taxes …
Biofuels are a promising source of energy with major implications for global competitiveness, energy security and uncertain social and environmental impacts. Therefore, crafting policy and regulatory frameworks for biofuels nationally and internationally is likely to require intense debate, negotiations and compromise. Building on the current momentum that exists in almost …
This paper examines the cost of a range of national, regional and global mitigation policies and the corresponding incentives for countries to participate in ambitious international mitigation actions. The paper illustrates the scope for available instruments to strengthen these incentives and discusses ways to overcome barriers to the development of …
The objective of the study was to determine the effectiveness of a sanitation campaign that combines “shaming” (i.e. emotional motivators) with subsidies for poor households in rural Orissa, an Indian state with a disproportionately high share of India’s child mortality. Original Source
In compliance with the announcement of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to provide loan to the farmers at the rate of three per cent interest, a precise in this regard would soon be sent to the State Cabinet for a final decision. This information was given at a review meeting …
Devika Banerji / New Delhi May 27, 2009, 0:18 IST The majority of the Rs 2,200 crore of government subsidies on sale of cotton by state-owned trading firms like Cotton Corporation of India have gone to traders. After the government increased the minimum support price (MSP) for cotton by 40 …
Recent share placements by renewable energy companies suggest the industry has passed through a financial bottleneck, but investor appetite for further stock sales could vanish as quickly as it surfaced. Germany's Q-Cells, the world's largest maker of solar cells; Danish Vestas, the world's biggest maker of wind turbines; and U.S. …
Suntech Power Holdings Inc and ReneSola Ltd lowered their full-year forecasts on Thursday as the credit crisis has choked off funding for renewable energy projects, sending shares of the Chinese solar power companies down sharply. Suntech's announcement that it would issue new shares to pay down debt also fueled the …
Chinese solar company Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd said it was starting a 1.5 megawatt rooftop solar system project in Jiangsu province in China and the project is expected to be eligible for subsidies by the Chinese government. The photovoltaic module maker said it was building the system in HuaiAn …
New Govt May Also Withdraw Dual Pricing Of Kerosene & LPG POLITICALLY tough decisions such as free-market pricing of fuels such as petrol and diesel may happen sooner than expected now, with the election of India
German solar companies that have not yet set up US and Chinese production plants are likely to lose out on significant subsidies and will struggle to bring down their production costs to the levels of their Asian peers. Announcements of solar subsidy programmes in the two countries have supported the …
China is set to smash its target for a roll-out of solar power by 2020 more than fivefold and possibly even tenfold, a researcher with the National Development and Reform Commission, the economic planning ministry, said on Tuesday. Under the NDRC's renewable energy plan set out in 2007, China would …
The Government on Tuesday dismissed the need to offer any subsidies to import the hybrid technology vehicles in the country. It wants domestic automobile companies to indigenise technology.
When West Bengal Green Energy Development Corporation commissions its 2 MW photovoltaic (PV) solar power plant at Jamuria near Asansol in April-May, it will leave an indelible mark on India
The ongoing global financial and economic crisis has the potential to usher in a period of a global recession that may seriously undermine all countries
