Inventory of Estimated Budgetary Support and Tax Expenditures for Fossil Fuels 2013

Quantitative estimates of support for the production or consumption of fossil fuels in OECD member economies, with a summary of each country's energy economy and support measures. 

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Budgetary support and tax expenditures for fossil fuels. An inventory for six non-OECD EU countries (2013)
(Link opens on European Commission website)

Using the OECD’s method and approach, the European Commission has extended the coverage of the information contained in the OECD Inventory to those measures that support the production or the consumption of fossil fuels in the six non-OECD EU countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Romania.

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Click on the image (left) or on this link to open an interactive map with estimates of oil, electricity, coal and natural gas consumption subsidies in 38 economies, for the years 2009 to 2011.

You can also download a table with an overview of the estimates (Excel file)

» More on IEA fossil fuel subsidy analysis

IEA data is taken from the annual publication World Energy Outlook                                                            

Joint report by IEA, OPEC, OECD and World Bank on fossil-fuel and other energy subsidies
An update of the G20 Pittsburgh and Toronto Commitments (pdf, 14 pages, 750 KB)

This joint report to the G20 Summit in Cannes in November 2011 highlights the extent of subsidies and other support to fossil fuel production and consumption, the potential economic and environmental benefits of subsidy reform, and guidance on how countries can undertake the reforms while still protecting the poor.

» More reports to G20 on fossil-fuel subsidies and support

Taxing Energy Use: A Graphical Analysis

This publication provides the first systematic statistics of effective tax rates – on a comparable basis - for each OECD country, together with ‘maps’ that illustrate graphically the wide variations in tax rates per unit of energy or per tonne of CO2 emissions.

» More OECD work on environmental taxation

The Trade Effects of Phasing Out Fossil-Fuel Consumption Subsidies

A co-ordinated multilateral removal of fossil-fuel consumption subsidies over the 2013-2020 period would increase global trade volumes by 0.1% by 2020, according to this OECD paper. (Published as OECD Trade and Environment Working Paper 2011/05)

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OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Mexico 2013

Mexico spent 1.7% of GDP on energy subsidies over 2005-09, including those for transport fuels and electricity use by households and farmers. This review recommends extending the use of environmentally related taxes and reforming environmentally harmful subsidies in order to tackle climate change and reduce inequality.

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Phasing out energy subsidies (Chapter 5 of OECD Economic Surveys: Indonesia 2010)

The oil price hike in 2007-08 underlined the vulnerability of Indonesia’s energy subsidy policy to oil price volatility. Phasing out energy subsidies would benefit both the economy and the environment, says this report.

» More OECD Economic Surveys