Oil Change International publishes online Coal Subsidies Toolkit

(Oil Change International, Washington, June 2014) A new campaign toolkit provides guidance on how to identify the many forms of coal subsidies, to quantify them where possible, and to campaign to ultimately eliminate them. The toolkit covers national subsidies and public finance for coal, including exploration, mining, processing, power plants, and associated infrastructure. The kit includes links to valuable resources such as the OECD’s “Inventory of Estimated Budgetary Support and Tax Expenditures for Fossil Fuels”, which provides a summary of each of the 34 OECD countries’ budgetary and tax-related measures at the central-government level and for selected sub-national units of government.  It includes an online database of quantitative estimates for a subset of producer and consumer subsidies for each country.