G20 Nations Are Still Spending Billions of Dollars Supporting the Fossil-Fuel Industry

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G20 Nations Are Still Spending Billions of Dollars Supporting the Fossil-Fuel Industry
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That's despite promising nearly 15 years ago to phase-out subsidies for the carbon-polluting industry.

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. And buried in the leaders’ declaration, was one old goal, a ghost of climate summits past, which casts doubt on the ability of world politicians to put politics aside in the name of emissions cuts: to “phase out and rationalize, over the medium term, inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption.”

That goal, to stop using public funds to tip the scales in favor of fossil fuels, is the no-brainer of no-brainers in fighting climate change: if we want to eliminate fossil fuels, a good first step would be to stop using taxpayer dollars to pull them out of the ground.

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