27 May 2017 – During the G7 summit in Sicily the assembled heads of states failed to reiterate their commitment to end fossil fuel subsidies by 2025, which they had
26 May 2017 – Koichi Yamamoto, Japan’s environment minister, has a message for his country’s corporate titans – get ready because putting a price on carbon is all but inevitable
31 May 2017 – Lucy Kitson (Research Officer and Economist, IISD-GSI) reports on a side-event to the Vienna Energy Forum about gender inclusive energy policies. She argues that fossil fuel
18 May 2017 – Christopher Ragan (Chair, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission), Peter Robinson (CEO, David Suzuki Foundation) and Steve Williams (CEO, Suncor Energy) argue that Canada’s carbon pricing policy is striking
25 May 2017 – The world’s third-largest greenhouse gas emitting country said it would lower the duty on coal from July 1 and impose a new 18% tax on solar
24 May 2017 – In his recently revealed budget plan President Donald Trump has proposed a 36% cut in the federally subsidized crop insurance program over the next decade among
24 May 2017 – WTO members pressed on with negotiations on potential disciplines for fisheries subsidies, holding four days of intensive discussions at the organisation’s Geneva headquarters. This cluster of
21 May 2017 – Swiss voters backed the government’s plan to provide billions of dollars in subsidies for renewable energy, ban new nuclear plants and help bail out struggling utilities
22 May 2017 – A poll of nearly 3000 people found that just 7 per cent of voters want money from the federal government’s northern Australia investment fund used to
25 May 2017 – President Trump’s recently released budget proposal contains a passage that endorses congestion pricing in urban centers. The paragraph is titled “Incentivize Innovative Approaches to Congestion Mitigation”
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