General Information

• Deadly Subsidies
• Economic Instruments in Biodiversity-related Multilateral Environmental Agreements
• Energy Subsidies in Developing Countries: Can we make it for those whom it is intended?
• Energy Subsidies: Lessons Learnt in Assessing the Impact and Designing Policy Reforms
• Environmental Fiscal Reform: What Should be Done and How to Achieve it?
• Environmental harmful subsidies - a threat to biodiversity
• Environmentally Harmful Subsidies
• Environmentally Harmful Subsidies: Linkages between subsidies, the environment and the economy
• FAO State of Food and Agriculture Report 2008: Biofuels - Prospects, Risks and Opportunities
• Financing for Sustainable Forest Management: Current Challenges in the Changed Financial Environment.
• Fisheries Subsidies: Impacts and Options for Reform
• Fueling the Threat for Sustainable Fisheries in Europe
• Guide for Identifying, Assessing and Reporting on Subsidies in the Fisheries Sector (FAO)
• Incentive Measures and WTO Rules (ICTSD COP8 Biodiversity and Trade Briefings, March 2006)
• Incentive measures appropriate to enhance conservation and sustainable use of agrobiodiversity
• Incorporating Resource Impact into Fisheries Subsidies Disciplines: Issues and Options
• Individual transferable quotas as an incentive measure for the conservation and the sustainable use of marine biodiversity
• OECD 1998 Improving The Environment through Reducing Subsidies - Part I, Part II + Part III
• OECD 2003 Environmentally Harmful Subsidies: Policy Issues and Challenges
• OECD 2005 Environmentally Harmful Subsidies: Challenges for Reform
• OECD 2006 Financial Support to Fisheries: Implications for Sustainable Development
• OECD 2006 Subsidy Reform and Sustainable Development: Economic, Environmental and Social Aspects
• OECD 2007 Subsidy Reform and Sustainable Development: Political Economy Aspects
• OECD 2008 Biofuel Support Policies: An Economic Assessment
• OECD 2008 Review of Fisheries
• OECD 2008: Implementation of the 2004 OECD Council recommendation on the use of economic instruments in promoting the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity
• OECD 2009: Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries - Monitoring and Evaluation
• OECD Experience in Reforming Environmentally Harmful Subsidies
• OECD Work on Defining and Measuring Subsidies in Fisheries
• Perverse and positive incentives: working insights from TEEB
• Perverse Incentives in Biodiversity Loss, OECD, 2003
• Perverse Subsidies
• Progress in Implementation on Economic Aspects of Forests: Report of the Secretary-General
• Reforming Energy and Transport Subsidies: Environmental and Economic Implications, OECD, 1997
• Reforming Energy Subsidies: Opportunities to Contribute to the Climate Change Agenda
• Reforming subsidies - draft chapter for the TEEB report for policy-makers, for review
• Removing Environmentally Harmful Subsidies: A report to the European Commission’s DG Environment
• Subsidies in World Fisheries- , A Reexamination
• Subsidizing Unsustainable Development
• Subsidy reform: doing more to help the environment by spending less on activities that harm
• Sunken Billions
• Synthesis report of information on incentive measures provided by CBD Parties in the third national reports
• The Distributional Incidence of Residential Water and Electricity Subsidies
• The Environmental Impact of Transport Subsidies
• Towards the reform of environmentally harmful subsidies
• World Trade Report 2006: Exploring the links between subsidies, trade and the WTO
• Ethiopia
  Incentive measures for the conservation of agrobiodiversity

Case Studies

• Incentive and Market Based Mechanisms Selected Case Studies and Best Practises
• Angola, Botswana, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Sudan, United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  Economic Aspects of Community Development in Sustainable Forest Management in Eastern and Southern Africa
• Australia
  Unintended consequences of policy settings for water quality in Australia
• Austria
  Economic incentive measures in the creation of the National Park Neusiedler See-Seewinkel, Austria
• Botswana
  Promoting a sustainable water supply in Botswana
• Canada
  Incentive measures in the Canadian National Forest Strategy
• Colombia
  Incentivos para la Concervacion y Uso Sostenible de la Biodiversidad, Colombia
• Czech Republic
  Analysis of Public Subsidies in the Czech Republic with an Adverse Environmental Impact that are not in Accord with the Principles of Sustainable Development
• Denmark
  Economic incentives for the transformation of private forest areas into forest reserves in Denmark
• Ethiopia, Cameroon, Zambia
  Incentives for sustainable use and conservation of agrobiodiversity - experiences and lessons from Southern Africa
• European Union
  Evaluation of the application of cross compliance in the common agricultural policy of the European Union (full report)
• European Union, Netherlands, Spain, Czech Republic
  Incentive measures in the European Union
• Finland
  The Act of the financing of sustainable forestry and the development of forest certification in Finland
• Germany
  Environmentally harmful subsidies in Germany
• Greece
  Incentives for the conservation of the nesting grounds of the sea turtle, Caretta caretta, in Laganas Bay, Zakynthos, Greece
• India
  India's experiences with the reform of perverse, and the promotion of positive, incentive measures
• Kenya
  Financial and policy instruments for the conservation of Mount Kenya forest, Kenya
• Lebanon
  Tax exemptions or reductions and environmental funds in the Code of Environment of Lebanon
• Mexico
  Structural Adjustment, Market and Policy Failures: The Case of Maize
• Netherlands
  Green investment funds: Organic Farming, The Netherlands
• New Zealand
  Protection of Natural Heritage on Private Land, New Zealand
• Norway
  The role of economic tools in Norway's Action Plan for Biodiversity
• Peru
  Actuales Incentivos Económicos en los Diversos Sectores, Peru
• Saint Lucia
  Perverse incentives emanating from St. Lucia's Forest, Soil and Water Conservation Ordinance
• Spain
  Discussing the Reform of Irrigation Subsidies
• Uganda
  Removal and Mitigation of Perverse, and the Promotion of Positive, Incentives Measures for Biodiversity use and Conservation: Experiences from Uganda
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  Heathland management in the United Kingdom
• United States of America
  Incentives to enhance conservation of endangered species on private land in the United States