TY - BOOK ED - Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos TI - Environmentally harmful subsidies : : challenges for reform SN - 9264012044 U1 - 338.982 PY - 2005/// CY - Paris PB - OECD KW - ECONOMIA DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE KW - DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE KW - PAISES DE LA OCDE KW - ECONOMIA AMBIENTAL KW - DESARROLLO SUSTENTABLE KW - ECODESARROLLO N1 - Executive Summary -- 1. Synthesis report on environmentally harmful subsidies: Introduction -- Definition and measurement of subsidies -- Assessment of environmental harmful subsidies -- Overcoming obstacles to the reform of environmentally harmful subsidies -- 2. When removing subsidies benefits the environment: developing a checklist based on the conditionality of subsidies: Introduction -- Subsidy-environmental linkages -- Merging theory with evidence -- Developing the checklist -- Appendix 2.1. Selected case studies -- Appendix 2.2. The role of elasticities -- 3. The political economy of environmentally harmful subsidies: Introduction -- The political economic framework -- The political economy of policy concessions: the demand side -- Constraints on rent seeking: the supply side -- Strategies for reform -- Annex. A stocktaking of OECD work on subsidies N2 - Subsidies are pervasive throughout OECD countries and much of this support is potentially harmful environmentally. This report presents sectoral analyses on agriculture, fisheries, water, energy and transport, proposing a checklist approach to identifying and assessing environmentally harmful subsidies. It also identifies the key tensions and conflicts that are likely to influence subsidy policy making. The book concludes with a discussion of politically feasible subsidy reform strategies ER -