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 …
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered the creation of a fingerprinting system in stores that sell food to limit smuggling of subsidized staple products to neighbouring countries. The system, announced late on Wednesday, is meant to ease chronic shortages of consumer products ranging from cooking oil to toilet paper by preventing …
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat has announced that swarbhom swasthaya yojna, a health scheme, will be implemented in the state on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. He said that Congress-led state government was committed to carrying development works in higher areas of the state. While addressing a gathering in …
Solar energy projects commissioned up to March 31, 2018 are eligible to get the exemption for a period of 10 years In an effort to promote solar energy generation in the state, the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) has exempted solar power generators from paying the wheeling and banking charges, …
Chinese government policies are sparking a surge in the production of new energy vehicles including electric and hybrid cars, state news agency Xinhua said on Sunday. In the first seven months of this year, production of such vehicles rose 280 percent from a year earlier to 25,946, Xinhua said, citing …
New Delhi : Contrary to popular perception, India has little to worry about its product-specific support to agriculture exceeding the limits prescribed by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), a recent study has revealed. This implies that New Delhi’s aggressive stance at the world body, seeking leeway from the cap on …
Power generator Drax has admitted defeat in a row over the government's decision to pull the plug on a lucrative subsidy after the court of appeal ruled in favour of ministers. Shares in the company fell 10% after it surprised markets with the news that the department of energy and …
New Ration Cards For All Beneficiaries By March 2015 The state government will implement the Food Security Act brought by the Centre in the state from October 2, food and civil supplies minister Anoop Jacob said here on Monday. A high-level meeting convened by chief minister Oommen Chandy here on …
As debates concerning global sustainable development goals intensify, there is one policy that seems to unite all development agencies: the reduction or elimination of energy subsidies – especially those for fossil fuels. It has been estimated that the world’s governments spend approximately half a trillion United States dollars (US$) each …
The fact that oceans and seas matter for sustainable development is undeniable. Oceans and seas cover over two thirds of the earth's surface, provide food and minerals, generate oxygen, absorb greenhouse gases and keep in check climate change, determine weather patterns and temperatures, and serve as highways for sea-borne international …
The International Fuel Prices report provides an overview of the retail prices of gasoline and diesel in over 170 countries. It further explores recent trends and case studies on fuel prices and fuel pricing policies in developing countries. The 2012/2013 International Fuel Prices report provides an overview of the retail …
The Chinese government has responded to the challenge of increasing energy consumption and environmental pollution with ambitious targets for renewable energy generation. In the 12th Five-Year Plan, running from 2011 to 2015, a target was introduced to generate 15 per cent of primary energy from renewable sources by 2015. To …
Increasingly the private sector is expected to finance access to modern energy services in developing countries. Yet governments and donors still have much to learn about working with business, while low-income markets are unfamiliar and risky for private investors. This report present some innovations and challenges in financing pro-poor energy …
Chief minister Harish Rawat on Tuesday announced that the centrally sponsored Food for All scheme, called Khadyan Yojna, offering subsidized food grains including wheat and rice to all families, whether below or above poverty line, would be implemented in the Himalayan state in right earnest from August 1. The announcement …
France will mobilise about 10 billion euros ($13.41 billion) for a package of tax breaks, low-cost loans and bonuses to boost investment in renewable energy and cut the country's oil and gas bill, Energy Minister Segolene Royal said on Tuesday. Royal, President Francois Hollande's fourth energy minister in two years, …
The administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has offered to pay the Fukushima Prefectural Government ¥230 billion over the next 30 years if the prefecture hosts temporary storage facilities for soil tainted by radiation from the March 2011 nuclear disaster, NHK reported Wednesday. But Fukushima Prefecture is unhappy with the …
Japan is readying subsidies to help Toyota Motor Corp and key suppliers take the lead in hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles that could top 40 billion yen over the next several years if the most bullish projections for the technology play out. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s planned consumer rebates of at …
With the widening of the food security cover, an additional 1.2 lakh families in Delhi began receiving subsidised food under the Food Security Act from July. Entitlement While food security cards are being delivered to the new beneficiaries, an additional 1,64,259 families comprising 5,55,325 members have also been added to …
Indian officials indicated that they would not be able to support the implementation of the WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) unless they see their concerns on food security addressed, according to multiple media reports. The news, coming just ahead of a key WTO meeting, has reignited old tensions among the …
India is unlikely to allow ratification of a trade facilitation protocol at a crucial World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in Geneva on Thursday if it does not simultaneously endorse its concerns about food subsidies to feed its poor, said official sources. Most developed countries are pressuring India to drop its …
