Energy Subsidies
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CanadaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy PoliticsEnergy SubsidiesGeneral RenewablesInternationalJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyNuclearRenewable EnergyUnited States
Leaders Declare Continental Energy Aspirations, Details to Follow
North American energy policy analysts and market participants will need to “connect the dots” in more than a figurative sense if the halo of ... -
ChinaClimate & SocietyEnergy PoliticsEnergy SubsidiesInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsMiddle EastUnited States
G-20 Fails to Set Deadline for Fossil Subsidy Phase-Out
G-20 energy ministers meeting in Beijing last week failed to agree on a timeline to phase out their share of fossil fuel subsidies valued ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesNon-Renewable EnergyNuclearOil & Gas
NGOs Urge G20 to End Fossil Subsidies by 2020
More than 200 non-government organizations are calling on G20 energy ministers meeting in Beijing this week to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies by 2020. -
CanadaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyEnergy PoliticsEnergy SubsidiesGeneral RenewablesJurisdictionsMethaneMexico, Caribbean & Latin AmericaRenewable EnergyUnited States
‘Three Amigos’ Urged to Collaborate on Climate Change, Decarbonization
A summit this week will bring U.S. President Barack Obama and Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto to Ottawa to meet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentInternationalJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasTar Sands/Oil Sands
Black Gold’s Future is Mostly Red Ink, Energy Economists Say
The warnings to investors in high-cost fossil fuels to abandon ship while they still can rang loud again recently, at a global summit in ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyEnergy PoliticsEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportTar Sands/Oil Sands
‘Because It’s 2015’: Canadian Fossil, Mining Companies Nab $28 Billion in Federal Export Finance
(Editor’s note: We missed this story in Monday’s edition due to a technical glitch in our email system. We apologize for the confusion.) ... ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy SubsidiesInternational Agencies & Studies
Subsidies Should Stay Despite Low-Priced Renewables: IEA
Falling renewable prices are no reason to cut the (comparatively paltry) government subsidies that have helped make them possible, the International Energy Agency advises ... -
CanadaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyEnergy SubsidiesGeneral RenewablesJurisdictionsMexico, Caribbean & Latin AmericaNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportRenewable EnergyUnited States
‘Three Amigos’ Will Keep Ambitions In Check
Clean energy and climate will top the menu but political calendars will constrain ambitions when freshman Prime Minister Justin Trudeau receives lame duck U.S. ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyCoalEnergy PoliticsEnergy SubsidiesInternationalJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasShale & FrackingTar Sands/Oil Sands
G7 to Eliminate ‘Inefficient’ Fossil Subsidies by 2025
Meeting with other G7 leaders in Japan, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agreed to eliminate “most” of an estimated $46 billion in annual Canadian subsidies ... -
BuildingsClimate & SocietyCulture, Curiosities, & HumourDemand & DistributionEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentJurisdictionsRenewable EnergySolarUnited States
Solar ‘Contagion’ Spreads Rooftop Panels Across Neighbourhoods [Animation]
Customer referrals are becoming such an important factor in rooftop solar sales in the United States that SolarCity, the country’s biggest solar installer, is ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrought, Famine & WildfiresEnergy SubsidiesForests & DeforestationJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasTar Sands/Oil Sands
Multiple Causes Apparent in Fort McMurray Inferno
As exhausted firefighters were finally able to report they had turned the flames away from devastated Fort McMurray, the debate over the implications of ... -
Climate & SocietyClimate Denial & GreenwashingEnergy PoliticsEnergy SubsidiesJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasUnited States
Sierra Offers Advice After Koch Exec Acknowledges Climate Change
If fossil fuel magnate and noted climate denial funder Charles Koch has really come to accept the science of climate change, U.S. Sierra Club ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPipelines/Rail Transport
Canada Joins G7 Commitment to Pipelines, Other Fossil ‘Supports’
Canada committed to promote pipeline development and other measures to support the oil and gas sector at a meeting of G7 resource ministers in ... -
Carbon Levels & MeasurementClimate & SocietyCoalEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesNon-Renewable Energy
Rich Countries Must Phase Out Public Finance for Coal Plants: WWF
Rich countries must lead the effort to phase out coal and declare an end to public finance for even the most “efficient” combustion technologies, ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionEnergy PoliticsEnergy SubsidiesJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Fossils Try to Kill the Electric Car (Again)
With Bloomberg projecting that affordable electric cars could bring on the next oil price crash as early as 2022, the fossil industry is fighting ...
