Are we building back better? Track climate and energy focused analysis of COVID-19 recovery packages, looking at support for fossil fuels and clean energy. The Energy Policy Tracker website showcases publicly-available information on public money commitments for different energy types, and other policies supporting energy production and consumption. The research follows a bottom-up approach, which involves collecting data on individual policies at the level of an individual government or multilateral institution, and then aggregating them.
Policies are classified according to different criteria. One of the key criteria is a policy’s environmental profile that depends on 1) which energy types it benefits, and 2) whether it has any environmental conditionality attached. Throughout the Tracker, information is split across five categories: “fossil unconditional”; “fossil conditional”; “clean unconditional”; “clean conditional”, and “other energy”.
The Tracker currently covers 37 countries and 8 Multilateral Development Banks for the 2020-2021 period.
G20 aggregate numbers are those of its 19 member countries and exclude the rest of the European Union’s policies and population.
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