Paying the Polluter

Edited by Frans H. Oosterhuis, Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Patrick ten Brink, European Environmental Bureau, Belgium

• Contents:ForewordKai Schlegelmilch1. Introduction: High Hopes and Down-to-Earth RealismFrans Oosterhuis and Patrick ten Brink2. A Global Survey of Potentially Environmentally Harmful SubsidiesRonald Steenblik3. Hidden Subsidies: The Invisible Part of the EHS IcebergSirini Withana, Patrick ten Brink, Leonardo Mazza and Daniela Russi4. Can We Recognise an Environmentally Harmful Subsidy if We See One?Jan Pieters5. Quantifying the Impacts of Environmentally Harmful SubsidiesCees van Beers and Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh 6. Energy SubsidiesFrans Oosterhuis and Katharina Umpfenbach 7. Environmentally Harmful Subsidies in the Transport SectorLaurent Franckx and Inge Mayeres8. Agriculture, Food and WaterFrans Oosterhuis and Kris Bachus9. Environmentally Harmful Subsidies and BiodiversityPatrick ten Brink, Markus Lehmann, Bettina Kretschmer, Stephanie Newman and Leonardo Mazza10. Reforming EHS in Europe: Success Stories, Failures and Agenda SettingJacqueline Cottrell11. Phasing Out Environmentally Harmful Subsidies WorldwideAnja von Moltke12. Reform of Environmentally Harmful Subsidies: Distributional IssuesAnnegrete Bruvoll and Haakon Vennemo13. The Way Forward: Reforming EHS in the Transition to a Green EconomyPatrick ten Brink, Sirini Withana and Frans OosterhuisAppendix 1: Classifying and Estimating Government SupportRonald Steenblik and Jehan SauvageAppendix 2: A Subsidy Reform ToolPatrick ten Brink and Sirini WithanaIndex

‘The financial means embedded in subsidies for unsustainable systems of production and consumption are increasingly well studied and reported. This has led to policy recommendations (e.g. OECD, EU) on how to reform subsidy systems in support of the necessary transitions to a low carbon and ecosystem resilient society based on a strong resource efficient economy. The authors in this book contribute to the debate based on recent, high quality and policy relevant research. It is a timely contribution to a pressing financial issue in environmental policy.’