Energy Subsidies
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Energy Subsidies ‘Gobble Money, Cook the Planet’: The Economist
Economic policy-makers are capable of big mistakes, “but it would be hard to find a worse one than energy subsidies,” The Economist wrote last ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportShale & FrackingTar Sands/Oil Sands
Tar Sands/Oil Sands Decline May be Permanent, Analysts Say
Falling oil prices have throttled tens of billions of dollars in investment and reduced Canada’s future tar sands/oil sands production by 1.2 million barrels ... -
Climate & SocietyCoalEnergy SubsidiesEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsInternational Agencies & StudiesNon-Renewable EnergyOil & Gas
$10 MILLION PER MINUTE: IMF Recalculates Fossil Fuel Subsidies
$10,083,713.85 per minute. Every minute of every day. That’s the total subsidy that fossil fuels receive, for a total of $5.3 trillion per year, according to ... -
Climate & SocietyCoalEnergy SubsidiesInternational Agencies & StudiesNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasRenewable EnergySolarWind
Export Subsidies Vastly Favour Fossil Fuel Technologies Over Renewables
Rich countries spend about five times as much subsidizing exports of fossil fuel technology as they do for renewable energy, according to data obtained ... -
BioenergyClimate & SocietyDemand & EfficiencyEnergy SubsidiesEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasRenewable EnergySolarUnited StatesWind
U.S. Energy Subsidies Shift While Fossil Fuel Revenues Tank
U.S. energy subsidies declined and shifted focus from 2010 to 2013, and falling oil prices have cut into tax revenues in major oil-producing states, ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy SubsidiesEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsHydroJurisdictionsPost-Carbon TransitionRenewable Energy
Canadian Power Production Could Be 100% Renewable by 2035
Canada could produce all its electricity from renewable sources by 2035 and reduce its carbon pollution 80% by 2050, according to a report released ... -
Climate & SocietyEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentIndiaInternationalInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsPost-Carbon Transition
International Agencies Push to Abolish Fossil Fuel Subsidies
The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the International Energy Agency are ramping up a campaign to abolish fossil fuel subsidies, just as ... -
Climate & SocietyEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentInternationalInternational Agencies & StudiesJobsJurisdictionsPost-Carbon Transition
‘Dizzying Pace’ Continues at Geneva Climate Talks
The Daily Tck continued its phenomenal on-the-ground coverage of this week’s climate negotiations in Geneva, reporting that talks “seemed to move at an even ... -
Climate & SocietyEnergy PoliticsEnergy SubsidiesInternationalInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsPost-Carbon Transition
Draft Global Climate Agreement Due by ‘Friday at 6 PM’
The first round of negotiations leading up to this year’s UN climate summit in December got under way in Geneva yesterday, and The Daily ... -
Climate & SocietyCoalEnergy SubsidiesEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsInternationalInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasRenewable EnergySolarWind
Lower Oil Subsidies Make Renewables Competitive: IEA
More than two dozen countries are responding to low oil prices by scaling back or eliminating fossil fuel subsidies designed to keep costs down ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyEnergy SubsidiesEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & Gas
IMF Pegs Canadian Fossil Fuel Subsidies at $34 Billion Per Year
Canada’s $34 billion per year in direct fossil fuel subsidies and “uncollected tax on externalized costs” are a drain on the economy and bleed ... -
Climate & SocietyDemand & EfficiencyEnergy SubsidiesGeneral RenewablesJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportRenewable EnergyUnited States
Renewables, Efficiency Could Even Out Winter Price Spikes
Massachusetts can even out wintertime spikes in energy prices by reducing its reliance on natural gas in favour of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and ... -
Fossil Fuel Subsidies ‘Hold Our Economy Back’, Venture Investor Says
By propping up fossil fuel production with $2 trillion per year in subsidies, governments are distorting markets in a way that discourages clean energy ... -
FAIL: Lima Delegates Duck Key Issues in Global Climate Negotiations
After running 31 hours past the scheduled close of the UN climate conference in Lima, Peru, negotiators “signed off on an outcome that neither ... -
Adaptation Costs Triple While Countries Debate Climate Action
Climate change adaptation will cost up to three times as much as previous estimates, according to the Adaptation Gap Report released in Lima this ...
