The EU Commission proposed a revision of the Directive 2009/33/EC on the promotion of clean and energy efficient road transport vehicles (the Clean Vehicles Directive) as part of the second
New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade launched a video on the “cheapest thing the world could do to reduce climate-change emissions” – phasing out fossil fuel subsidies. David
27 November 2019: The simple fact that the popular uprising in Chile was triggered by a fare increase for probably one of the “greenest” metros in the world shines the
25 November 2019: A new article by the World Resources Institute outlines 12 reasons why climate action is positive for the U.S. economy on the whole. In terms of fiscal
21 November 2019: A new blog by the Canadian Ecofiscal Commission explores options for reducing traffic congestion. It concludes that the best policy mechanism would be adopting a polluter-pay principle
13 November 2019: A proposed bill called the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (EICDA), could see the U.S. government charge companies for every ton of greenhouse gas they emit
14 November 2019: As part of Canada’s G20 commitment, the country announced a joint peer review with Argentina in June of 2018 to provide an inventory of the countries’ fossil
14 November 2019: In his opinion piece in the Forbes, Wal van Lierop’s, the President & CEO at Chrysalix Venture Capital argues that governments subsidies towards the fossil fuel sector
5 November 2019: Speaking last week at the Asian Clean Energy Summit, part of Singapore International Energy Week 2019, experts have said that Southeast Asia’s fast-growing economies need to abandon
1 November 2019: In CNN’s recent climate crisis town hall, fossil fuels—and the industry that produces them—were mentioned 153 times. In particular, US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders pledged to end
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