Sentences with phrase «indirect subsidies for fossil fuels»

Not exact matches

The idea that fossil fuels benefit from both direct and indirect subsidies has been around for years, but analysis has generally been done in pieces (some of it done very well — Nancy Pfund and Ben Healy at DBL Investors published an excellent analysis of direct subsidies in the U.S. a couple years back) or without complete data robust enough to stand up to critique.

Governments can certainly help a lot - one of the best thing they could do is remove subsidies, direct and indirect, for fossil fuels - but they can't do it all.

Furthermore, an estimated 11 - 18 % of global fossil fuel subsidies don't go towards directly lowering the prices that consumers pay, instead occurring in the form of tax breaks for fossil fuel companies and other forms of indirect support for industry.