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CSO reports and other publications on shifting financial flows

On this page you find civil society organisations' reports and other publications related to the issue of shifting financial flows and fossil fuel subsidies. For all shifting financial flows and fossil fuel subsidy related CAN Europe publications, go here.

EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

France

RAC-France: Utilisation des recettes des outils de fiscalité «carbone» en faveur de la transition écologique juste
RAC-France: Les aides au transport aerien - Dommageables au climat et injustes!

Germany

Oil Change International, 350.org - Time to Stop Digging: Why Germany’s Climate Leadership Requires a Rapid Phaseout of Fossil Fuel Production and Finance

Ireland

Corporate Knights - Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, Fossil Fuels and Climate Change

Luxembourg

urgewald and Votum Klima - The luxembourg pension fund's coal investments

Netherlands

Both ENDS - Towards Paris Proof Export Support: Why and how the Dutch government must exclude export credit support for fossil fuel (June 2017)

Norway

OCI: The Sky’s Limit - Norway: Why Norway should lead the way in a managed decline of oil and gas extraction

Spain

Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis - Spain's Capacity Market: Energy Security or Subsidy?

South-East Europe

South East Europe Sustainable Energy Policy (SEE SEP) - Sustainable energy: How far has SEE come in the last five years? South East Europe Energy Watchdog Report 2016
CEE Bankwatch - The great coal jobs fraud - unrealistic employment claims in southeast Europe

United Kingdom

Green Alliance - Smart investment valuing flexibility in the UK electricity market
Oil Change International - UK BUDGET 2016: Oil tax breaks are the wrong course
InfluenceMap - The Dirty Dozen: diesel power subsidisation in the UK

EUROPEAN UNION

The Investment Plan for Europe

CEE Bankwatch et al. - The best laid plans: Why the Investment Plan for Europe does not drive the sustainable energy transition

EU Budget

CEE Bankwatch/Friends of the Earth Europe: Climate's enfants terribles: how new Member States' misguided use of EU funds is holding back Europe's clean energy transition
Green Budget Europe - Communicating Green Own Resources: A New Narrative for the EU Budget

State Aid

Client Earth - The effect of state aid governance on EU climate and energy policy
Client Earth - State aid for coal-fired power stations, briefing
Client Eartn - Complaint against Spanish subsidies for coal power plants [Legal analysis 1, July 2010]

Capacity Mechanisms

Overseas Development Institute - Rethinking power markets: capacity mechanisms and decarbonisation
Overseas Development Institute - How you can stop the UK giving millions to dirty power

The EU Emission Trading Scheme as a source funding fossils

Carbon Market Watch - Policy Brief: Fossil fuel subsidies from Europe’s carbon market
Carbon Market Watch -A Guide to European Climate Policy Vol. 1 – EU’s Emissions Trading System
Carbon Market Watch - Carbon welfare: How big polluters plan to profit from EU emissions trading reform
WWF and EcoLogic - Smart Cash for the Climate: Maximising Auctioning Revenues from the EU Emissions Trading System

The European Semester

Green Budget Europe - 2017 Assesment of Country Reports and Proposals for Country-Specific Recommendations

European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI)

CEE Bankwatch, Counter Balance, CAN Europe and WWF EPO - Doing the same thing and expecting different results?

Other

Transport & Environment: Dirty diesel also worse for the climate than petrol cars - study
WWF EPO: European Asset Owners: 2°C Alignment and Misalignment of Public Equity Portfolios
ODI - Cutting Europe's lifelines to coal: tracking subsidies in 10 countries
Green Budget Europe - Towards a Sustainability Oriented Energy Union: Shadow Factsheets for the Energy Union
Corporate Europe Observatory - The Great Gas Lock-in: Industry lobbying behind the EU push for new gas infrastructure
Friends of the Earth Europe - Can the climate afford Europe’s gas addiction?

INTERNATIONAL

G7

Influence Map - Fossil Fuel Subsidies in the G7 and EU

G20

Oil Change International and Overseas Development Institute - Empty promises: G20 subsidies to oil, gas and coal production
Oil Change International and co. - Talk is Cheap: How G20 Governments are Financing Climate Disaster
Germanwatch et al. (2017) - Brown to Green: Assessing the G20 transition to a low-carbon economy
Germanwatch - Shifting the Trillions: The role of the G20 in making financial flows consistent with global long-term climate goals
CARE - G20 and Climate Change: Time to Lead for a Safer Future

Development Banks

Inclusive Development International, Bank Information Center - OUTSOURCING DEVELOPMENT: Lifting the Veil on the World Bank Group’s Lending Through Financial Intermediaries
BIC and Sierra Club - MDB Climate Change Scorecard 2015
CEE Bankwatch - The European Investment Bank and its energy sector lending 2013-2015
Bank Information Center et al. - Workd Bank Development Policy Finance Props Up Fossil Fuels and Exacerbates Climate Change: Findings from Peru, Indonesia, Egypt, and Mozambique
Bank Information Center, Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, The Big Shift - Funding Clean Energy Access for the Poor: Can the World Bank Meet the Challenge?

Export Credit Agecies

OCI - Financing Climate Disaster: How Export Credit Agencies Are a Boon for Oil and Gas

Health

Other

Oil Change International - The sky's the limit: Why the Paris Climate Goals require a managed decline of fossil fuel production
Christian Aid - Financing our future How development finance can drive the shift to a zero-carbon future
Overseas Development Institute et al. - Beyond coal: Scaling up clean energy to fight global poverty
CEE Bankwatch - Risky Business : Who benefits from the Southern Gas Corridor?
Counter Balance - Corrupt but legal: Institutionalised corruption and development finance
International Institute for Sustainable Development & Oil Change International - Zombie Energy: Climate benefits of ending subsidies to fossil fuel production and related webinar video recording
IISD - A Guidebook to Reviews of Fossil Fuel Subsidies: From self-reports to peer learning
IDDRI and Climate Strategies - Lessons from previous ‘Coal Transitions’
Counter Balance & BankTrack: The Trans-Adriatic Pipeline project: identified non-compliance with the Equator Principles
Climate Strategies - Tackling Fossil Fuel Subsidies through Trade Agreements

Latest Publications

CAN Europe contribution to the Public Consultation for the Revision of the Guidelines on State aid for Environmental protection and Energy 2014-2020 (EEAG)

This document sets out our contribution to the Public Consultation for the Revision of the Guidelines on State aid for Environmental protection and Energy 2014-2020 (EEAG).

08.01.2021 | Submissions to Consultations
CAN Europe submissions to consultations on the Ten Year Network Development Plan 2020

CAN Europe submitted its feedback to the public consultation of the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) and Gas (ENTSOG) on their Ten Year Network Development Plans (TYNDP) 2020 for electricity and for gas.

21.12.2020 | Submissions to Consultations
CAN Europe submission to consultation on EU Sustainable Finance Taxonomy

This document sets out our feedback to the European Commission’s draft Delegated Act on the EU Sustainable Taxonomy, for economic activities having a substantial contribution to climate mitigation and climate adaptation while doing no significant harm (DNSH) to climate and environmental objectives.

18.12.2020 | Submissions to Consultations
CAN Europe submission to consultation on the Ten Year Network Development Plan (TYNDP) 2022 Storylines

With this submission, CAN Europe responds to the consultation on the storylines for the Ten Year Network Development Plan (TYNDP) 2022.

17.12.2020 | Submissions to Consultations

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