Removing energy price subsidies

In order to promote the efficient and sustainable use of energy it is necessary to progressively reduce and where possible remove energy price subsidies which counteract an efficient use of energy and/or have harmful effects on the environment.

Paragraph 32 of the 1998 UN/ECE Århus Declaration promotes European measures to reduce energy price subsidies.

1. Removing subsidies
2. Pricing energy rationally

1. Financing energy efficiency

1. Developing national strategies to control transboundary air pollution

1. Energy

1. Who Benefits from Energy Subsidies?
2. Removing energy subsidies in developing and transition economies
3. International Energy Agency
4. No More Energy Subsidies: Prevent the New, Repeal the Old
5. Removing Subsidies Leveling the Playing Field for Renewable Energy Technologies
6. Lessons Drawn from Reforms of Energy Subsidies
7. Assessing the Impact of Removing Energy Subsidies on Energy Intensive Industries in Egypt
8. The benefits of eliminating consumer subsidies to fossil fuels: results of the OECD - IEA modelling exercise
9. Economic Impact of R emoving Energy Subsidies: A Quantitative Analysis
10. Reforming Energy Subsidies Initial Lessons from the United Arab Emirates
11. Energy Subsidies
12. Reviewing, Reforming, and Rethinking Global Energy Subsidies: Towards a Political Economy Research Agenda
13. Energy initiatives
14. The Aarhus Convention