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Acknowledgements

The research leading to these results received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Programme FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreement number 308329 (ADVANCE). We thank the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Energy Program for hosting the online database with the scenario data as well as P. Kolp, L. Groihofer and D. Garcia-Carbrera for data and database support; the International Energy Agency (in particular A. Bromhead, L. Cozzi, N. Selmet, G. Zazias and T. Shirai) for providing data and support related to their energy subsidy database; G. Luderer for contributing to the study design; and A. Cherp for commenting on the manuscript.

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  1. Energy Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, 2361, Austria
    Jessica Jewell, David McCollum, Volker Krey & Keywan Riahi
  2. Centre for Climate and Energy Transformations and Department of Geography, University of Bergen, Bergen, 5020, Norway
    Jessica Jewell
  3. Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 37996, Tennessee, USA
    David McCollum
  4. Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan, 20123, Italy
    Johannes Emmerling, Loïc Berger & Massimo Tavoni
  5. Centro Euromediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Lecce, 73100, Italy
    Johannes Emmerling, Loïc Berger & Massimo Tavoni
  6. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz Association, PO Box 60 12 03, Potsdam, D-14473, Germany
    Christoph Bertram
  7. Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, 3584 CS, The Netherlands
    David E. H. J. Gernaat & Detlef van Vuuren
  8. PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Hague, The Netherlands
    David E. H. J. Gernaat & Detlef van Vuuren
  9. Department of Electric Power, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, 15773, Greece
    Leonidas Paroussos & Kostas Fragkiadakis
  10. Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods, IESEG School of Management (LEM-CNRS), Lille, 59000, France
    Loïc Berger
  11. UCL Energy Institute, University College London, London, WC1H 0NN, UK
    Ilkka Keppo & Nawfal Saadi
  12. Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, 20156, Italy
    Massimo Tavoni
  13. Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University, Budapest, 1051, Hungary
    Vadim Vinichenko
  14. Institute of Thermal Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Graz, 8010, Austria
    Keywan Riahi

Authors

  1. Jessica Jewell
  2. David McCollum
  3. Johannes Emmerling
  4. Christoph Bertram
  5. David E. H. J. Gernaat
  6. Volker Krey
  7. Leonidas Paroussos
  8. Loïc Berger
  9. Kostas Fragkiadakis
  10. Ilkka Keppo
  11. Nawfal Saadi
  12. Massimo Tavoni
  13. Detlef van Vuuren
  14. Vadim Vinichenko
  15. Keywan Riahi

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J.J., D.McC., V.K. and K.R. designed the experiment (with input from C.B. and M.T.). J.J. compiled the fossil fuel subsidies and energy price data. D.McC. and V.K. provided the MESSAGE model data. J.E. and L.B. provided the WITCH model data. D.E.H.J.G. and D.v.V. provided the IMAGE model data. K.F. and L.P. provided the GEM-E3 model data. C.B. provided the REMIND model data. J.J. made all the figures (with assistance from V.V. and D.E.H.J.G.). J.J. led the analysis of the modelling results and writing of the paper, with input from all authors.

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Jewell, J., McCollum, D., Emmerling, J. et al. Limited emission reductions from fuel subsidy removal except in energy-exporting regions.Nature 554, 229–233 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25467

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