IPS 858 - Measuring Environmentally Harmful, Including Fossil Fuel, Subsidies
Category: IPS
Tuesday 7 October 8 a.m. - 9:10 a.m. (Europe/Amsterdam)
Room - Africa
Participants
In recent years there seems to be a shift in focus from policy measures that support the environment to those that actually obstruct the preservation of nature and harm the environment. Official statistics should keep up with this shift in policy perspective. This requires among other things a definition and corresponding classification of subsidies and other transfers that are potentially harmful to the environment. In this line of work, the methodology previously developed by UNEP (2019) and the European Commission (2022, 2023) may be taken as point of departure.