Environmental, Health and Safety News: Half a trillion spent on fossil fuel subsidies mostly "a complete waste of money"

Apr 27, 2010

Half a trillion spent on fossil fuel subsidies mostly "a complete waste of money"

Despite burning up our finite fossil fuels, governments around the world still spend 500 billion US dollars a year subsidizing fossil fuel industries. A new study from the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) of the International Institute for Sustainable Development looks at the difficult political situation behind ending fossil fuel subsidies.

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