Pressure for G20 deadline on fossil fuel subsidies shifts to Germany
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Experts and green groups are urging Germany to set a target year for the G20 nations to phase out hundreds of billions of dollars in state subsidies to polluting fossil fuels, writes Megan Rowling for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. As host of next year’s summit, there is pressure on Germany to produce an agreement, after the recent summit in China failed to do so. "Time is running out," Alex Doukas of Oil Change International told Reuters. “Every dollar wasted on fossil fuel subsidies pushes us closer to climate disaster and makes the transition to clean energy more difficult.”
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