Fossil fuel subsidies
Morocco hailed as climate ‘poster child’ after oil subsidy axe
NEWS: Government move to stop funding cheap petrol and diesel hailed as major progress by World Bank’s Rachel Kyte
French Foreign Minister launches attack against fossil fuels
NEWS: Former prime minister and possible UN climate talks president Laurent Fabius says oil and gas subsides must be cut
Extra $800bn needed per year to avert dangerous climate change
NEWS: Diverting fossil fuel subsidies into low carbon technology could bridge the green investment gap, say researchers
Fossil fuel subsidies equal $112 per adult in rich countries
Report from the Overseas Development Institute shows fossil fuel subsidies undermine EU carbon pricing
Analysis: world’s finance chiefs are taking aim at fossil fuels
Heavyweights of world finance have fired warning shots at the fossil fuel industry by calling for cutbacks in its subsidies
EU chiefs call for G20 decision on fossil fuel subsidies
Barroso and Van Rompuy letter to EU leaders calls for progress on oil and gas subsidies, climate finance and green growth policies
Fossil fuel subsidies: the addiction Egypt just can’t kick
Fossil fuel subsidy cuts have been targeted by the World Bank, G20 and climate campaigners. While Iran is setting an example, Egypt struggles to cut the cord
EU panel calls for fossil fuel subsidies cut by 2020
High level panel says environmentally harmful subsidies and tax-breaks must be slashed by 2020 to achieve resource-efficient economy
Calls for fossil fuel subsidies to be addressed at UN climate summit
COP18: David Turnbull from Oil Change International tells RTCC that huge financial support for oil and gas needs to be talked about in Doha
Climate Live: MPs call on UK to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies, EU takes action against emission trading surplus & NASA reports ‘extreme melt’ in Greenland
Today’s top headlines: MPs call on UK to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies, US official says cutting air pollutant could ‘buy time’ in fight against climate change, and extreme melt event in Greenland.
MPs call for UK to ‘eliminate’ fossil fuel subsidies at UN climate talks in Qatar
Committee says end of fossil fuel subsidies would offer massive carbon savings and allow renewable energy to compete on a ‘level playing field’.
Will the billions needed for climate change finance be found in Doha?
After three days of talks on climate change cash in Bonn, the challenges have become clearer while questions have been raised over solutions like ending fossil fuel subsidies and the Robin Hood tax.
Paying for climate change: Visible urgency on final day of UNFCCC finance talks
Candid comments and calls to slash red tape suggest increased urgency at the UN climate finance workshop’s final session.
Rio+20: WWF and Greenpeace slam new draft text on sustainable development
WWF says energy section of latest proposal “could have been written by the oil and gas industry”.
Will Obama run a green election campaign?
As both the President and his staff speak out about climate change, how green will Obama’s election campaign be?
Calls grow for bottom-up overhaul of renewable energy in developing world
New research calls for an overhaul of the Clean Development Mechanism, to favour bottom-up approaches, as it finds huge cost variations in renewable energy implementation across the developing world.
IEA: Overseas aid to Africa outweighed by oil imports
New figures show that countries in Africa are spending more on importing oil than they are receiving in overseas aid. Renewables investment could free up development funds.
The anatomy of US energy subsidies
New figures claim renewable energy and efficiency sectors received majority of funding but the big fossil fuel firms are still the biggest beneficiaries.
Obama calls for American people to wean themselves off fossil fuels
President calls them the “fuel of the past” and calls for a more diverse energy strategy.
Obama calls on Congress to end fossil-fuel subsides
In his latest speech, at Nashua Community College in New Hampshire, President Obama called on Congress to vote to end subsides to big oil and gas companies.