This webinar explores how climate and development advocates can engage with National Oil Companies, featuring a presentation on the new NRGI and IISD brief.
Recent report from International Institute for Sustainable Development shows that natural infrastructure, like forests and wetlands, provides same services at half the cost of built infrastructure.
This brief reviews how the Government of Indonesia (GoI) can finance its COVID-19 recovery budget at the same time as the energy transition by raising funds from fossil fuel taxation and subsidy reform. It also provides recommendations on future expenditures.
In June the IMF made the latest of many calls from economists for a market-oriented policy to tackle climate change. “Carbon pricing... is the least-cost option to deliver deep emission cuts,” it argued in a paper written ahead of a meeting of the leaders of the G20 group of large economies. Carbon taxes, as this newspaper has long argued, can be a powerful way to force polluters to pay for the harm they do to the environment by burning fossil fuels.
Alors que la crise climatique exige une réduction drastique et rapide de nos GES à zéro émission pour 2030 comme l’ont réclamée les étudiants à la marche du 24 septembre dernier, les partis politiques de l’Assemblée nationale sont plus que timorés dans leurs objectifs. Maintien de l’objectif de Charest de -37.5% pour la CAQ, -55% pour QS, -45% pour le PLQ de Anglade et -50% pour le PQ.
Subsidies that make coal, oil and gas cheaper are widely recognized as a roadblock to a transition toward cleaner energy. But they’ve proven hard to get rid of.