Sentences with phrase «fuel subsidies made»

Decisions by the Syrian government to withdraw food and fuel subsidies made food even less affordable.

Not exact matches

Producers wouldn't earn the $ 1 per gallon subsidy they need to make these expensive fuels and still make a profit.

The progress India has made in cutting back costly government subsidies on items such as fuel is a prime example of the advances being made in structural reforms under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The deal, long in the making after Entergy signaled it would shutter the FitzPatrick plant in 2017, comes after state regulators put the final approval on new subsidies for renewable fuels, including nuclear power, potentially worth millions of dollars.

It has been uncovered that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission may not be making use of the investigative report on the fuel subsidy management conducted...

In August that hole was plugged: The fuel Appel makes, known officially as renewable diesel, received a subsidy of $ 1 per gallon from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which took effect in January.

To resolve these challenges, the Lancet - Rockefeller commission offered several proposals, including diversifying diets, making hospitals and health infrastructure more resilient to environmental shocks like storms, and diverting fossil fuel subsidies toward health care.

Moreover, the authors suggest that states that provide subsidies to uneconomical nuclear reactors within their borders could also play a constructive role by making those subsidies available only for plants that agreed to carry out expedited transfer of spent fuel.

While there is no single silver bullet solution that will address the majority of global greenhouse gas emissions, eliminating fossil fuel subsidies is an obvious way to harvest low - hanging fruit, and, despite the odd framing, this study's findings seem to confirm that eliminating fossil fuel subsidies has the potential to make a major contribution to global climate action.

Coming back to the problems with the study's methodology, perhaps the study's biggest failing is that it considers only the dollar value of subsidies to fossil fuel producers — not their real - world impact on fossil fuel production and investment decision - making.

You are correct up to a point, Bob Dole the former make believe Republican and the lobbies are responsible for stealing our tax dollars in the form of subsidies and forcing us to use an inferior product that actually costs more due to the poor mileage, robs performance from the engine, creates engine and fuel system problems and is environmentally worse.

Fossil fuel interests are using their clout at the White House and in Congress to sabotage every renewable energy program that comes along, while make sure massive government subsidies, on the order of $ 100 billion a year when you count it all up, continue to flow to the fossil fuel industry (U.S. military expenditures are $ 500 billion a year, and good chunk of that is devoted to protecting overseas oilfields, for example).

Their critics say their stance, however well intentioned, will produce the real delays, given how much can be done now simply by cutting energy waste with tools already on the shelf — ranging from strengthening efficiency standards to eliminating billions of dollars in persistent fossil - fuel subsidies that continue to make coal and oil much cheaper than they really are when all their hidden costs are revealed.

It didn't even make sense in the past, because the fossil fuel industry was profitable enough not to need subsidies.

By subsidizing fossil fuels here, along with providing subsidies for highways, spreading our communities out ever more widely in sprawling suburbs, and discouraging rapid transit development almost everywhere the U.S. has made sure that oil producers would be enriched around the world for as long as the pumps were working.

Furthermore, powerful actors with vested interests in fossil fuels are working to remove the incentives for wind power that has made it competitive with the dirty energy sector that enjoys billions of dollars in subsidies.

We should phase out subsidies for corn ethanol as cellulose and other forms for making alternate fuels come on line.

There was some bad news for Drax recently as the UK government decided that biomass subsidies would not keep climbing as the «carbon price floor» — levied on fossil fuel production (and due to rise further)-- on electricity consumption has caused a backlash from manufacturers, consumer groups and energy suppliers who are concerned that the «tax will push up prices, make the UK uncompetitive and force the premature closure of coal - fired power plants, increasing the risk of blackouts.»

Oil subsidies make up over half of the total fossil fuel consumption subsidies, while electricity makes up 24 percent, natural gas 22 percent and coal 0.4 percent.

These commitments were made in recognition that inefficient fossil - fuel subsidies distort markets, impede investment in clean energy sources and undermine efforts to deal with climate change.

«Your Administration can point to important areas where it is making real progress towards sustainability — including making major new investments in renewable energy, promulgating EPA rules on carbon pollution from power plants, and proposing to reduce fossil fuel subsidies, among others,» the letter reads.

In December alone, Germany installed nearly as much solar capacity as the United States has in total, fueled by the subsidies that solar companies admit sometimes made it possible not to worry whether there was sufficient demand in a given area for the power they would produce.

Such policies would encourage economic growth as the foundation for a cleaner environment, responsible development and use of fossil fuels until superior energy sources are found, and repeal of many of the regulations, subsidies, and taxes passed at the height of the man - made global warming scare.

The current text therefore reiterates the existing commitment, adding that «we will endeavour to make further progress in moving forward this commitment», encouraging all G20 members to initiate a voluntary peer review as soon as feasible, and noting the OECD / IEA progress report on the peer review process and facilitation of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies phase out.

The G20 fossil fuel subsidy review, pioneered in 2016 by US and China, is currently the only concrete step to make progress on the group's pledge from the 2009 summit in Pittsburgh to phase - out «inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that increase wasteful consumption».

Over recent years, Indonesia's fuel and electricity subsidy reforms have made the country a leader in progress towards this commitment.

Savings made by governments from removing subsidies to fossil fuels can be redirected or swapped to help fund a clean and just energy transition.»

This is according to a study by the International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD) Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) and Gaia Consulting, «Making the Switch: From Fossil Fuel Subsidies to Sustainable Energy.»

For decades the climate alarm movement has been pushing «solutions» that would handicap fossil fuels rather than make alternative energy more competitive — that is, cheaper without costly subsidies.

I know you say the subsidy argument made by conservatives is specious (my word, not yours), but the reality is that renewables are being subsidized in ways that fossil fuels never were.

Last year, Simi Valley Landfill entered what is becoming a fast - growing business of transforming fetid odors from decaying trash into fuel, a feat made possible by the miracles of modern chemistry and government subsidies.

But the models fail to account for dynamic reactions to a corn crop reduction (in this case a simple and very cost efficient response would be to end corn ethanol subsidies, thus redirecting corn to food rather than fuel, ending an inefficient industry and encouraging ethanol industries in tropical nations using sugar cane, which makes a lot more sense than corn ethanol).

Markus Trilling, finance and subsidies policy coordinator at Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, said: «The current approach of the European Parliament to the future EU budget is clearly pointed in the right direction as it recognises how vital it is to make all EU spending work for the climate and to end any support for fossil fuels.»

It should be noted though that eliminating the indirect fossil fuel subsidy could actually make wind & solar less competitive because they are dependent on flexible dispatchable plants with relatively low CAPEX.

To go to scale, government is going to have to lead: loan guarantees for poor people, taking subsidies away from fossil fuels, making sure that when homeowners feed lowcarbon energy into the grid they get a good price from utilities.

«The Brazilian government should be fulfilling the commitments made under the Paris Agreement, with a complete restructuring of the energy matrix, redirecting resources to renewable energy initiatives, but instead they continue to carry out fossil auctions and giving subsidies that strengthen the most polluting sector in the world: the fossil fuel industry.

He said the lower oil price might spur the use of fossil fuels but could also make it «more politically palatable» for some countries to cut fossil fuel subsidies.

Of course, in withdrawing any fossil fuel subsidies, absolute consideration has to be given to accessing energy for the poorest, therefore investment has to be made in sustainable energy alternatives.

Ironic, too, that the head of the OECD has made passionate pleas for the world to end fossil fuel subsidies, while deals are cut within the OECD to ensure these subsidies continue.

Lastly, we want to make it clear that we do not support subsidies or mandates for any fuel.

In an effort to provide guidance for APEC economies to implement subsidy reform further, this report provides an updated status of fossil fuel subsidies in APEC economies, tracking major recent subsidy reforms made in APEC economies, estimating value of fossil fuel subsidies in the region to identify where the challenge remains to further reform subsidies.

Further, the Indian government has made major progress in its phase - out of fossil - fuel subsidies, of which the most important step has been a reduction of subsidies for imported oil, a shift that has accompanied the international collapse of oil prices.

And the fuel is much cheaper, because the shipping cost of locally made ethanol is much lower, and because part of the 51 cent per gallon ethanol blending subsidy is being passed on to consumers.

(For fossil fuels, tax assessed preferably at the mine or well, to reduce paperwork and make enforcement efficient (as opposed to the exhaust pipe)-- but then a compensating credit for fossil C used in materials unlikely to be oxidized, etc, with compensating tariff / subsidy for trade between nations with differing policies; attempt at least approximate CO2eq tax for other sources so as to not distort the market (don't encourage too much deforestation for biofuels, don't forget about cement production, don't forget about cows, etc.)-RRB-.

Moreover, I would suggest that those of us in «the electorate» who are well - informed about this issue are well aware that changes in public policy — including putting a price on carbon pollution, directly regulating GHG emissions, and providing effective support for the development and deployment of efficiency and renewable energy technologies on a scale at least comparable to the subsidies that fossil fuels have received for a century — are far more effective than the options that any individual can currently choose, and are in fact crucial to making more such options available to all of us.

Its specialists are working on ways to help governments end fossil fuel subsidies while protecting the poor, connect global carbon markets, and make agriculture and cities climate - smart and resilient.

70 % of Americans oppose fossil fuel subsidies, and President Obama has made taking oil companies to task a cornerstone of his early reelection campaign.

But dropping the subsidy makes Brazil's cane sugar ethanol more viable on the market — and that is a more environmentally sound fuel.

... Many people argue that making corn - based ethanol is more of an agricultural subsidy for farmers than it is a sound environmental policy.Things get even dodgier for biofuels when you look at the land area that would be needed to grow fuel crops.

While more than 53 countries now have publicly committed to phase - out subsidies for fossil fuels, little concrete progress has been made.