11 April 2017 – The Vietnamese Finance Ministry recently published a proposal to increase the environmental protection tax on petroleum consumption from the current VNĐ1,000-4,000 to VNĐ3,000-8,000 per litre. The
13 April 2017 – Ivetta Gerasimchuk (Lead of Sustainable Energy Supplies, International Institute for Sustainable Development) argues that ending fossil fuel subsidies is a low hanging fruit for financing the
12 April 2017 – The Debate Over a Carbon Taxes, Cap and Trade, or Doing Nothing Matters to Environmentalists, but also State Budgets. Jeffrey Garceau (Associate Editor, MuniNet Guide) discusses
19 April 2017 – A joint investigation by Greenpeace Energydesk and Private Eye found that £6.9 billion in financial support has been provided to fossil fuel companies by the government
19 April 2017 – Maeve McLynn (Finance and Subsidies Policy Coordinator, Climate Action Network Europe) argues that the EU should continue its recent drive of tackling fossil fuel subsidies by
13 April 2017 – Ivetta Gerasimchuk and Peter Wooders (Energy experts at the International Institute for Sustainable Development) and Shelagh Whitley (Lead of the climate and energy programme at the Overseas Development Institute) argue
19 April 2017 – In Tennessee the State House and Senate passed a bill that raises the gas tax by 6 cents per gallon over the next three years, and
It has been nearly three years since the collapse in global oil prices and there have been mixed outcomes for countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). While
This paper by Tyeler Matsuo and Tobias S Schmidt published in Environmental Research Letters (Volume 12, Number 1) proposes that ‘hybrid’ policies that package fossil fuel subsidy reform with low-carbon
This paper by the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) analyzes the history of attempted fossil fuel reforms in Brazil from the 1930s until the 2000s. It examines the rationale used by
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