Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reforms: A Guide to Economic and Political Complexity

ISBN-13: 9780815386186 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 236 str.

Jun Rentschler

Opis

This book provides a guide to the complex challenge of designing, assessing, and implementing effective fossil fuel subsidy reforms. Rather than treating subsidy reforms as a purely fiscal affair, this book emphasises that subsidy reforms can contribute to all three dimensions of sustainable development objectives.

 

O autorze

Jun Rentschler is an Economist (YP) at The World Bank working at the intersection of climate change and sustainable resilient development. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, the Payne Institute for Earth Resources in Colorado, and the Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. Prior, he worked at the German Foreign Ministry and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). He is a co-author of the book Investing in Resource Efficiency: The Economics and Politics of Financing the Resource Transition (2018).