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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire called on Friday at a meeting with his G20 counterparts for a global minimum price for carbon emissions in the absence of a single global price.
G20 finance leaders recognized carbon pricing as a potential tool to address climate change for the first time in an official communique on Saturday, taking a tentative step towards promoting the idea and coordinating carbon reduction policies.
Fossil fuel subsidies persist despite the climate crisis. They distort the energy market by keeping fossil fuel prices artificially low. Removing these subsidies must be accompanied by social programmes that will reduce the impact on the poorest household.
Those who bear a disproportionate share of a carbon tax will mobilise against it … unless they are given reason not to In his classic
A lot of money is needed to prevent spiralling biodiversity loss; somewhere between US$598 billion and US$824 billion a year
Pacific Islands called for a price on shipping pollution, tepid support from European nations
In spite of green rhetoric, money has piled into aviation and car industries since start of pandemic, report finds The nations that make up the G7 have
G7 member countries should take immediate and concrete action to end fossil fuel subsidies, Human Rights Watch said in a question-and-answer document released today. Ending these subsidies
From “green Marshall Plans” and net-zero energy sectors to a lack of clarity on green spending and transport decarbonisation, EURACTIV’s media partner edie.net rounds up
In a communique the Group of Seven nations – the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan – plus the European Union said
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