Fossil Fuel Subsidies & Climate Change

Norman Myers, an environmental scientist, is the author of the book Perverse Subsidies: Tax $s Undercutting our Economies and Environments Alike. He is currently completing a new book called How Institutions Block Our Road to Sustainability. He also serves as a member of the High-Level Advisory Group of the Global Subsidies Initiative. The GSI reached Mr. Myers at his home in Oxford, England.

A British non-profit organization has made a series of broad recommendations for how the EU budget could be better directed towards addressing climate change. Investing in our future: a European budget for climate security, published by Green Alliance, calls on Europe to take the lead in shaping the response to climate change, and to take a closer look at the linkages between environmental and economic policy.