Subsidies with an impact on the environment

Subtitle:Methodology, inventory and cases

Subsidies are created to achieve certain policy objectives, but can have an unintended negative effect on the environment. The European Commission and other organisations are calling for the elimination of environmentally harmful subsidies. This study has provided a tool for identifying environmentally harmful subsidies. It also developed guidelines that Flemish policy makers can use when evaluating subsidies and when they want to have subsidies phased out or reformed.

In addition, a long list of potentially environmentally harmful subsidies has been drawn up, in which a number of cases have been worked out in more detail. The answer to the question of whether or not a subsidy can be labelled as environmentally harmful is not always clear, but rather nuanced.

The text is structured as follows:
- Chapter 2: The general international policy context in which this question can be placed
- Chapter 3: General methodological view of the problem
- Chapter 4: Clarification of steps taken in the execution of this study
- Chapter 5: Problems of suburbanisation, which is an important focus area in this study
- Chapter 6: Grants with an impact on suburbanisation
- Chapter 7: Grants with an impact on other sectors.

Publication year:2013

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