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WTO agreement to end export subsidies for agriculture
2015-12-28 15:30:00| National Hog Farmer
By P. Scott Shearer, Bockorny Group, Washington, D.C. At the WTOs recent biennial meeting, the trade ministers agreed to phase out agricultural export subsidies and restrict agricultural export credits. read more
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Subsidies for solar 22 times less than people think poll shows
2015-11-20 15:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Subsidies for solar power are 22 times less than people think, according to a new YouGov poll commissioned by the Solar Trade Association. On average, respondents with a view estimated that solar accounts for 196 per year but in reality subsidy for solar only accounts for 9 on an average household bill of 1,300 a year. The median estimate was 100. Many respondents said they didnt know. A survey on wind power earlier this year found that perceptions of the cost of wind were equally high....
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Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies will reduce carbon emissions by 12%
2015-11-20 15:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Sandrine Dixson-Declve, the director of the Cambridge Universitys Institute for Sustainability Leadership says that Europe needs to eliminate fossul fuel subsidies and create an energy system based around renewables or will face becoming increasingly uncompetitive. Speaking in Paris yesterday at the European Wind Energy Conference where Ecotricitys launched their groundbreaking new windmill, the Britwind H15, Dixson-Declve warned that fossil fuel subsidies are harming the poor and are based...
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In major step on road to Paris, rich countries agree to slash export subsidies for coal plants
2015-11-18 13:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Post: After a concerted push from the United States, members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development agreed Tuesday to slash subsidies aimed at exporting technology for coal-fired power plants. The decision by the worlds wealthiest countries to eliminate export credits for the least efficient coal plants, which will take effect Jan. 1, 2017, and can be strengthened four years later, marks a major negotiating success for the Obama administration in the run-up to U.N. climate talks...
G20 must end fossil fuel subsidies say C20
2015-11-16 15:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: G20 leaders meeting in Turkey this week must tell the world how they plan to phase out fossil fuel subsidies by 2020 or risk being seen as dragging its feet, a high-level sustainability forum declared today. The G20 promised to phase out fossil fuel subsidies completely in 2009. But G20 governments still pump US$452bn annually into exploration for and production of fossil fuels, according to a report from the Overseas Development Institute released last week. The C20 Sustainability Working Group...
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