Major funders of the pro-fossil fuel Global Warming Policy Foundation are always keen to speak out against public support for renewable energy, writes Brendan Montague. So how come they're so keen to help themselves to a fortune in farm subsidies?
… Wind farm subsidies bad, farm subsidies good? Brendan Montague DeSmog.uk | … keen to help themselves to a fortune in farm subsidies? Climate change deniers have huffed …
Brexit will result in Britain exiting the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy. It will have to decide whether subsidies to farmers should be retained, or reformed. In the second part of this groundbreaking investigation a team of investigative journalists from across Europe - publishing with THE ECOLOGIST - assess how effective the environmental mechanisms of CAP really are.
… Policy. It will have to decide whether subsidies to farmers should be retained, or … investigation into Common Agricultural Policy subsidies is that they have had the perverse … while centralising and optimising the subsidies of those farms. The pollution stays …
A new report from the IMF has quantified the prodigious subsidies doled out to the fossil fuel industries, writes Pete Dolack - an astonishing $5.6 trillion per year, over 7% of world product, including direct payments, tax breaks and unpaid environmental costs. The obscene scale of public largesse proves the need for a social movement to challenge global energy capitalism.
… IMF reports: fossil fuel subsidies worth $5.6 trillion per year Pete … from the IMF has quantified the prodigious subsidies doled out to the fossil fuel … remarkable extent. When we think of corporate subsidies, we naturally think of taxes not …
Almost 60 years since the world's first commercial nuclear power station began to deliver power to the UK's grid, the industry remains as far from being able to cover its costs as ever, writes Pete Dolack. But while unfunded liabilities increase year by year, governments are still willing to commit their taxpayers' billions to new nuclear plants with no hope of ever being viable.
… the industry survives only on stupendous subsidies Pete Dolack | 4th January 2016 News … would not exist without massive government subsidies. Quite an insult: Subsidies prop up an industry that points a …
In 2009 G20 nations pledged to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies. But they are still supporting them with $452 billion a year. Worst offenders include the UK, the only G7 country that's ramping up its fossil fuel spending; and Turkey, host of tomorrow's G20 summit, which plans to double its CO2 emissions with a huge new fleet of coal power plants.
… UK's £10 billion a year fossil fuel subsidies - and rising! The Ecologist | 12th … G20 nations pledged to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies. But they are still supporting them … promising with other G20 nations to phase out subsidies six years ago. A new report by the …
President Obama and India's Prime Minister Modi are best of friends - aren't they? So how come the US took India to the WTO's trade court - and just won a resounding victory? And why isn't India challenging the US's own discriminatory solar subsidies? It's because of the money, writes Charles Pierson. And poor India has no choice but to play by Washington's rules.
… challenging the US's own discriminatory solar subsidies? It's because of the money, writes … a WTO dispute panel had found that India's subsidies for solar power contravene WTO trade rules . India must now remove the subsidies or face trade sanctions. The United …
Despite promises to phase out subsidies to the coal, oil and gas industries, a new report G20 governments are still providing them with massive financial help, writes Alex Kirby. The UK alone is spending over £1.2 billion per year to support fossil fuel exploration and production at home and abroad.
… G20 spending $88 bn a year on fossil fuel subsidies Alex Kirby | 13th November 2014 News … Despite promises to phase out subsidies to the coal, oil and gas industries, … countries agreed in 2009 to phase out subsidies to fossil fuels "in the medium term" …
Following the UK Government's announcement of huge public subsidies for the proposed Hinkley C nuclear power station in Somerset, England, Energy Fair has called on EU Commissioner Almunia to open a formal investigation for breaches of competition law.
… Nuclear subsidies: Open letter to Commissioner Almunia … UK Government's announcement of huge public subsidies for the proposed Hinkley C nuclear … ), I'm writing to urge you to oppose the new subsidies for the project that are proposed by …
As Drax holds its AGM in London a new campaign calls for UK renewables subsidies to be diverted from biomass burning to genuinely renewable energy.
… The truth about renewable subsidies Sally Clark | 15th April 2019 News … London a new campaign calls for UK renewables subsidies to be diverted from biomass burning … A surcharge on UK energy bills is funding subsidies for biomass electricity generation …
Fossil fuel subsidies have been reinstated in Ecuador following violent protests. Still, 'people's demands for a safe, stable economy and environment are not being listened to.'
… How not to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies Lucy EJ Woods | 21st October 2019 News Ecuador Fossil Fuels Subsidies Editor’s Picks Thought Leaders egwwmiuwsaaelcb.jpg Fossil fuel subsidies have been reinstated in Ecuador …
We must not let President Trump's vocal support for the US fossil economy eclipse the dismal record of his predecessors, writes Radek Stefanski. Under Clinton, Bush and Obama fossil fuels subsidies reached $170 billion per year, pushing up US emissions by some 11% - and that's the real problem we have to solve.
… Trump, think again! US subsidies for fossil fuels are already worth … Under Clinton, Bush and Obama fossil fuels subsidies reached $170 billion per year, … new method to extract the size of fossil-fuel subsidies by looking at how much these fuels …
UK megafarms in receipt of millions of pounds in government subsidies.
… Of Investigative Journalism Food And Farming Subsidies … receipt of millions of pounds in government subsidies. The operators of industrial-scale … that recipients of almost £70 million in subsidies in 2016 and 2017 include individuals …
The theme at COP21 today has been the urgent need to cut fossil fuel subsidies that favour dirty energy over renewables, writes Tony Juniper. Sadly the UK is setting all the wrong examples - ramping up its spending on fossil fuels, while slashing its much smaller renewable energy budgets.
… COP21: Time to end fossil fuel subsidies! Tony Juniper | 30th November 2015 … has been the urgent need to cut fossil fuel subsidies that favour dirty energy over … oversights: the annual allocation of public subsidies worth hundreds of billions of …
If the UK really wants 3.2GW of 'baseload' power in Somerset, then the Hinkley C nuclear power station is not the only way, write Marie-Louise Heddrich, Thorsten Lenck and Carlos Perez Linkenheil. Wind power with 'wind to gas' plant and CCGT gas power stations could do the same - faster, cheaper, more flexibily, and at much lower technical and financial risk.
… hourly simulation, and compared this with the subsidies that Hinkley Point C is expected to … than shut itself down and relinquish these subsidies. Modelling was done with the … hours 8,040 2,700 1,773 1,288 Level of subsidies (based on real 2012 figures) in …
Energy secretary Amber Rudd promised 'a new solar revolution' for the UK, writes Kyla Mandel. But now the industry is braced for a massive round of cuts that could kill off the sector, just as it's on course to be the UK's first subsidy-free renewable power source in 2020.
… renewable power source in 2020. Solar subsidies look like being next on DECC's … a month after DECC announced it will scrap subsidies for new onshore wind projects from 1 … though it is about to pull the plug on solar subsidies ... Cutting the subsidies now will …
Study finds large chunk of almost £4 billion in subsidy payments has been used to increase fleet capacity in Europe and 'exacerbate' the problem of overfishing
… EU subsidies linked to overfishing The Ecologist … Fishing Natural World bluefintuna1.jpg EU subsidies have been used to fund controversial … which paid almost £4 billion in fishing subsidies between 2000-2006. The groups' …
The UK's troubled Hinkley C nuclear power station faces a legal challenge from Germany's biggest energy co-op, which claims that the subsidy package will distort energy markets across Europe and disadvantage renewable generators and vendors.
… to launch legal challenge to UK nuclear subsidies Oliver Tickell | 5th March 2015 News … launch a legal action against the Hinkley C subsidies - in the face of menacing threats … domestic political implications." Far higher subsidies to nuclear than to renewables Last …
As the European Commission considers the £100 billion subsidy package the UK has offered EDF to build and operate Hinkley C nuclear power station, Paul Dorfman explains why the 'deal' is illegal, anti-renewables, and ruinous to energy users and tax payers.
… The government now say that these public subsidies are justified because new nuclear … General Economic Interest'. In other words, subsidies for Hinkley C are aimed at: security … to work, it is essential that distorting subsidies are not allowed to appear, since a …
Michael Gove, the environment secretary, will today announce plans to radically reform the payment of farm subsidies - in the wake of Brexit. If the promise is kept and the changes implemented well these changes could support a growing minority of farmers attempting to end soil depletion and economic destruction.
… plans to radically reform the payment of farm subsidies - in the wake of Brexit. If the … in the name of productivity. Government subsidies - while designed to encourage … they produce. Current ‘sustainable farming’ subsidies, under Pillar I of EU structures, …
Brexit gives the UK the chance to reform the system of agricultural subsidies that rewards wealthy landowners at the expense of taxpayers, the global south, the environment, and small scale sustainable farmers, writes Alex Scrivener. But strong, effective campaigning will be needed to bring about the changes we desperately need.
… chance to reform the system of agricultural subsidies that rewards wealthy landowners at … people in government personally benefit from subsidies. It was revealed this week that the … that receives £49,000 a year in agricultural subsidies. Leadsom herself has also accepted …
Four years ago OECD country leaders promised to reduce fossil fuel subsidies. Now IEA figures show they have soared from $300 billion to $544 billion.
… Fossil fuel subsidies soar to $544 billion The Ecologist | … leaders promised to reduce fossil fuel subsidies. Now IEA figures show they have … to eliminating unnecessary fossil fuel subsidies. At the time fossil fuel subsidies …
Subsidies for oil, coal and gas sectors were six times higher than those for renewable energy in 2009, the latest International Energy Agency (IEA) assessment has revealed
… End $300 billion subsidies for fossil fuels, says energy … are the biggest subsidisers of fossil fuel Subsidies for oil, coal and gas sectors were … assessment has revealed Ending government subsidies for fossil-fuels is the best way of …
In the run-up to the COP21 climate summit in Paris the G20's Antalya Communiqué is weaker on climate, fossil fuel subsidies and support for renewable energy than the G20's 2009 Pittsburgh Statement made shortly before the failed COP15 in Copenhagen six years ago.
… Communiqué is weaker on climate, fossil fuel subsidies and support for renewable energy … energy, climate change or ending fossil fuel subsidies. It does initially appear robust on … words on £452 billion a year of fossil fuel subsidies Of course there is one obvious way …