Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform

QUNO has agreed to act as a repository for the six peer reviews of the Group of Twenty (G20) Members’ efforts to reform their fossil fuel subsidies, as well as related documents.  These reviews have been of value to QUNO’s research in the Sustainable and Just Economic Systems, and we are pleased to provide them a repository base.

These peer reviews took place in 2016, 2017 and 2018 among pairs of G20 Members, and were organised by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation (OECD) in close co-operation with the economies under review and the participants in the review teams. All six reviews were chaired by Ronald Steenblik, at the time the OECD’s Special Counsellor for Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform, assisted by staff of the OECD’s Directorate for Trade and Agriculture (TAD), its Environment Directorate (ENV), and its Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (CTP). Ronald Steenblik now works on a pro-bono basis for QUNO’s Sustainable and Just Economic Systems (SJES) programme, where he serves as Senior Technical Advisor.

These documents were previously posted on the OECD’s website but disappeared when the previous pages relating to the OECD’s work on government support for fossil fuels and efforts to reform them were replaced by new pages. QUNO has agreed to post them on its web site to preserve them for other researchers, and to inform on-going discussions on fossil fuel subsidies, especially those taking place at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). QUNO wishes to acknowledge Prof. Jakob Skovgaard of Lund University for having previously downloaded these documents and providing us with copies. 

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