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10 January 2024
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Earth Track · 17 February 2015 English

The low or negative returns also preclude network expansion to the very customers and service regions it needs to reach in order to ameliorate energy poverty and improve the quality …


desLibris · 7 July 2019 English

This simple average of GHG emission reductions (from across the countries modelled) improves with modest additions to the modelled scenario, which includes a 10 per cent energy tax from 2025 …


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 1 December 2019 English

Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has chosen a new cabinet, there are big tasks ahead regarding fossil fuel subsidies and renewable energy expansion.


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 29 October 2010 English

In September 2009, at the Pittsburgh Summit, G-20 leaders recognized that "inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies encourage wasteful consumption, distort markets, impede investment in clean energy sources and undermine efforts to deal …


Brookings Institution · 14 July 2021 English

Globally, governments spend more than $500 billion on subsidies for fossil fuels that contribute to inefficiency, inequity, and negative externalities. Despite this obvious problem, efforts at reforming fossil fuel subsidies …



World Bank Group · 30 June 2023 English

Energy subsidies, which have a long history of use by governments around the world, have been rising in recent years after a brief period of decline. Despite their significant wider …



IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 22 March 2017 English

Improving urban air quality is a headline concern in both India and China. Fossil fuel subsidy reform is a potentially powerful tool in securing an improvement for both countries.


G8: Group of 8 · 27 June 2010 English

However the divided nature of the G20, and even the G8, on matters related to deficit reduction and stimulus measures means that Brazil might have to compromise on a deficit …