The media is beginning to wake up to the need to eliminate international fossil fuel subsidies, with more reports emerging everyday. Some particularly useful articles below…
- Fossil fuel subsidies: a tour of the data. The Guardian
- Overseas aid to Africa being outweighed by hefty costs of importing oil. Fiona Harvey, The Guardian
- Dirty Money: The astonishing new data showing that simply eliminating inefficient fossil fuel subsidies could achieve half the world’s carbon reduction goals. Matthew Yglesias, Slate.com
- Scrapping fossil-fuel subsidies would get us halfway there on climate change. Brad Plumer, The Washington Post
- Direct subsidies to fossil fuels are the tip of the (melting) iceberg. David Roberts, Grist
- Senate filibuster kills (another) bid to end oil subsidies. Chris Hayes, MSNBC