Today, G20 leaders in China again failed to set a deadline to end fossil fuel subsidies, seven years after they first committed to ending them. Even as G20 governments move to ratify the Paris Agreement on climate change, they’re adding fuel to the fire by dumping $444 billion of our money into polluting fossil fuel companies every year, undermining the spirit … Read More
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Should North Americans subsidize oil, gas, and coal for another 10 years?
This week, the leaders of Mexico, Canada, and the United States met in Ottawa for the North American Leaders’ Summit. In their outcome statement on climate and energy, they committed to “phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies by 2025 and call on the other members of the G-20 to do the same.” Along with their … Read More
RELEASE: Civil society organisations join forces to call for G20 to end fossil fuel subsidies by 2020
More than 200 civil society organizations have joined together to urge G20 governments to commit to end fossil fuel subsidies by 2020.
Time to act: G20 fails to move on fossil fuel subsidies promise (again)
This year, G20 leaders reiterated their same tired commitment to end fossil fuel subsidies, for the seventh time in a row. It’s starting to ring hollow.
Video: G20 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Push Us Closer to Climate Disaster
G20 support to fossil fuel production: Who are the leaders and the laggards?
Oil Change International and Overseas Development Institute released a new report today, ‘Empty Promises: G20 subsidies to oil, gas and coal production,’ documenting government support from G20 countries to the fossil fuel industry.
Empty promises: G20 subsidies to oil, gas and coal production
G20 country governments are providing $444 billion a year in subsidies for the production of fossil fuels. These governments are propping up the production of oil, gas and coal, most of which can never be used if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change, and undermining national climate commitments.
On November 14th we will say loud and clear: #StopFundingFossils. Join us.
Next week, on November 14th, we’re raising some noise. We are demanding our leaders live up to their commitments. We’re demanding they square their climate rhetoric with action. We’re telling them to Stop Funding Fossils.
Six years after vowing to change, will G20 leaders finally end fossil fuel subsidies?
G20 leaders first pledged to end fossil fuel subsidies back in 2009. Almost six years later, and despite reiterating that vow each and every year, they have precious little to show for it.
The Fossil Fuel Bailout: G20 Subsidies for Oil, Gas and Coal Exploration
G20 countries are estimated to be spending $88 billion every year subsidising exploration for fossil fuels. This new report documents, for the first time, the scale and structure of fossil fuel exploration subsidies in the G20 countries.