OECD Inventory of Support Measures for Fossil Fuels: Country Notes
This new web format for Country Notes on Fossil Fuel Support provides interactive on-line access to the latest data from the OECD Inventory of Support Measures for Fossil Fuels by country – identifying and estimating the value of support arising from policies that encourage the production or consumption of fossil fuels. The web version allows users to download, share and play with the data. Interactive graphics enable data visualisation, in national currency, by beneficiary and by energy product. These Country Notes provide, for each of the 50 economies covered in the Inventory, a snapshot of energy market structure, the current state of energy prices and taxes, and recent developments and trends in fossil fuel support. Data and country notes for the EU Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries have been collected and prepared as part of the GREEN Action Task Force.
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Australia
Coal mining dominates Australia’s energy production. Australia is the world’s second largest coal net exporter by volume and exports more than three-quarters of the country’s coal output. Most of the Australian coal production is accounted for by hard coal, while lignite represents less than 15% in volume. Besides coal, Australia also produces and exports large volumes of natural gas, the proven reserves of which have grown significantly in recent years with the commercialisation of large volumes of unconventional gas (i.e. particularly coal-bed methane). Overall, around 80% of the country’s total energy production is exported.
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