Inventory of Estimated Budgetary Support and Tax Expenditures for Fossil Fuels 2013

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Executive Summary
OECD member countries are still slowly recovering from the worst economic crisis in decades. With increasing understanding of the risks of climate change, countries are struggling at home and internationally to find cost-effective measures to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions. Policy makers are faced with having to deal with a multitude of challenges at once: nourishing growth while encouraging it to become more “green”; preventing high unemployment rates from becoming entrenched; reducing government deficits; and managing global imbalances. Implementing growth-friendly fiscal structures and public-spending patterns is critical to reducing imbalances and stimulating growth.
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