People I talk to understand that
direct consumptions subsidies harm countries, but say they can not see that pollution subsidies are in any way unfair.
Not exact matches
Globally,
direct and indirect government
subsidies, development bank financing, bilateral finance and aid money continue to promote the extraction, production and
consumption...
A recent IMF paper put the magnitude of
subsidies for fossil fuel energy sources at $ 5.3 trillion worldwide in 2015, including both
direct fiscal costs and implicit
subsidies from the failure to charge for environmental damages or tax energy at the same rate as other
consumption products.