20 June 2017 – This blog by Peter Wooders (IISD) and Cleo Verkuijl(SEI) discusses the outcomes of a recent workshop at the WTO which explored the potential of trade agreements
14 June 2017 – Norway, a country whose wealth is based on fossil fuels, has become the world leader in electric cars, with more than 35 percent of new cars
20 June 2017 – A group of nearly a dozen multinational corporations is backing a plan from senior US Republican statesmen to replace President Obama’s greenhouse-gas regulations with a carbon tax. The
17 June 2017 – 70 States, representing over 87.7% of international aviation activity, expressed their intention to voluntarily participate in the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA)
12 June 2017 -There is no universally agreed definition of what constitutes a fossil fuel subsidy. Multiple organisations make assessments each using their own, unique approach. The huge range of
15 June 2017 – According to a complaint filed with the European Commission by London-based lawyers ClientEarth, Bulgaria has given EUR 1.3 billion (USD1.5 billion) in illegal aid to coal-fired
6 June 2017 – Forty countries and 24 sub-national regions (states, provinces, etc.) have already or are scheduled to make polluters pay with a national or regional price on carbon.
There is mounting evidence that fossil fuel subsidies are detrimental to economic, environmental, and social sustainability, as they tend to drain national budgets, encourage overconsumption of fossil fuels, and aggravate
This conference, jointly organized by OECD, UNECE, UN Environment and UNIDO, will identify key challenges and ways forward to better align financial mechanisms with policy reforms to speed and scale up
Climate scientists have argued that oil, gas and coal reserves must remain unexploited to limit global warming increases to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Yet governments are continuing to
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