Sentences with phrase «subsidised fuels»

The decrease in the value largely reflects lower international energy prices of subsidised fuels since mid-2014, as the gap between international benchmark and end - user prices is closed by decreased international prices of energy, but it also incorporates the impact of pricing reform.

In the Netherlands, the subsidised fuel is expected to cut sulphur dioxide emissions from lorries by up to a quarter.

But many subsidies are poorly targeted, disproportionally benefiting wealthier segments of the population that use much more of the subsidised fuel.

Not exact matches

The competition watchdog has also forced Coles and Woolworths to stop offering excessive fuel discounts subsidised by grocery profits, and has stepped in to unwind restrictive lease provisions that prevented rivals from opening stores.

Government transferred an amount of GH cents 484.3 million to partially settle foreign exchange under - recoveries owed the Bulk Oil Distribution Companies (BDCs), support the Strategic Stock Reserve Programme of Government, and to subsidise premix and residual fuel oil.

You can offer them universal childcare or universal winter fuel allowance or universal education, but it doesn't mean they will be more willing to subsidise unemployment benefits for example.

Few will shed tears, let alone blood, for the right of dukes to heat their ancestral homes with the help of the Winter Fuel Allowance, or that of millionaires to subsidise school fees by means of Child Benefit.

Just this week an International Monetary Fund report revealed that they are subsidising fossil fuel companies to the tune of $ 5.3 trillion a year — equivalent to 6.5 per cent of global GDP.

Since 1991, when the government started to subsidise alternatives to fossil fuel, nearly two dozen wind farms have been opened in Britain.

The US government would also have to subsidise the manufacture of MOX fuel so that it would cost no more than conventional uranium fuel, says Holdren.

Ioin Lees, head of the Energy Technology Support Unit, which advises the Department of Energy, also confirmed that the European Commission has told the British Government that it can carry on subsidising renewable energy after 1998, when present arrangements, known as the Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation, are due to end.

If the government decides to continue subsidising the nuclear industry, future investment in coal and other fuels may be jeopardised.

Unfortunately both conservatives and liberals have subsidised fossil fuels, which are a senseless subsidy.

There's absolutely no real case to subsidise fossil fuels any more.

However other countries spend even more tax payer money on fossil fuel subsidies of various forms, including subsidising producers, tax credits, and keeping petrol artificially cheap.

The American tax payer spends billions subsidising American fossil fuel companies.

Until indirect land use change is fully taken into account, Europe will continue to subsidise an alternative energy that is no better than the fossil fuels it is designed to replace.»

Thankfully the shale boom stifled such US fuel poverty that is seen throughout Europe and now Australia thanks to «unreliable» energy — wind and solar — subsidised at 110 — 400 % in order to compete with hydrocarbon based fuels.

It does not, for example, capture subsidised research and development or subsidies for fossil fuel production.

Even more mind blowing than that, increasingly fossil fuels have to be subsidised to compete with clean energy.

We believe this is an industry fueled by the prospect of massive government mandated and subsidised «profits», hiding behind a veneer of «the common good».

Another suggestion is for projects to provide or subsidise efficient cooking stoves, which will decrease the use of wood for fuel.

Close down fossil fuels and subsidise renewables as a matter of urgency.»

G20 countries are estimated to be spending $ 88 billion every year subsidising exploration for fossil fuels.

So we spend # 13.84 per household (per year) on clean new sources of energy, nearly three times as much more to clean up the mess the nuclear industry has already made and up to eight times as much to subsidise fossil fuels.

Meanwhile, IRENA notes that the ongoing subsidising of fossil fuels in many countries, combined with the failure so far for a carbon price to account for the true cost of burning fossil fuels, means «today's markets are distorted».

Transportation accounts for nearly all of the subsidised fossil - fuel consumption.

• Kyoto Protocol • EU ETS • Australian CO2 tax and ETS • Mandating and heavily subsidising ($ / TWh delivered) renewable energy • Masses of inappropriate regulations that have inhibited the development of nuclear power, made it perhaps five times more expensive now than it should be, slowed its development, slowed its roll out, caused global CO2 emissions to be 10 % to 20 % higher now than they would otherwise have been, meaning we are on a much slower trajectory to reduce emissions than we would be and, most importantly, we are locked in to fossil fuel electricity generation that causes 10 to 100 times more fatalities per TWh than would be the case if we allowed nuclear to develop (or perhaps 1000 times according to this: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html • Making building regulations that effectively prevent people from selling, refurbishing or updating their houses if they are close to sea level (the damage to property values and to property owners» life savings is enormous as many examples in Australia are already demonstrating.

Renewables» subsidies put sting into power bills The Australian Michael Owen 26 July 2016 Renewable energy output in Australia is subsidised by almost $ 3 billion a year, more than 19 times the amount for generation from fossil fuels, a report by an economic consultancy says.

The list is long and worth many billions (sorry for caps); — GREENHOUSE GAS ABATEMENT PROGM (Carbon capture)-- NON-RECOVERY OF PUBLIC AGENCY COSTS — PETROLEUM EXPLORATION TAX CONCESSIONS — RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE — DIRECT SUBSIDIES TO FOSSIL FUEL PROJECTS — DIESEL FUEL REBATE SCHEME — EXEMPTION FROM EXCISE FOR ALTERNATIVE FUELS Ethanol production which is an energy sink)-- CONCESSIONAL RATE OF EXCISE FOR FUEL OIL, — HEATING OIL AND KEROSENE — CONCESSIONAL RATE OF EXCISE FOR AVIATION FUEL — EXCISE FREE STATUS FOR CONDENSATE — SUBSIDISED SUPPLY OF COAL - FIRED ELECTRICITY TO — ALUMINIUM SMELTERS — STATE ENERGY SUPPLY CONCESSIONS — ELECTRICITY PRICING STRUCTURES — SUBSIDIES FOR CENTRALISED GENERATION

Not to sound too cynical but I think we'll see subsidised Coal to Oil production way ahead of policies that reduce the use of fossil fuels — insuring a supply of oil being seen as urgent and Climate Change as less urgent.

On the other hand, the highly polluting fossil fuel industry is heavily subsidised and is a major cause of climate change and ocean acidification, but this does not seem to concern Mr Taylor.

The World Bank is spending billions of pounds subsidising new coal - fired power stations in developing countries while acknowledging that burning fossil fuels exposes the poor to catastrophic climate change.

It's going to cost the UK roughly the same amount of money to produce a «low carbon economy» over the next eight years as the entire world spends in a year on «subsidising fossil fuels» in a year.

«Also, governments continue to subsidise the fossil fuel industry with billions of Euros from public budgets, in order to keep energy from coal, oil or gas artificially cheap compared to clean alternatives.

So this means that the treasuries provide about B$ 100 to subsidise fossil fuels, but they get back B$ 800 in tax revenues and royalties!

Earlier this year the IMF estimated that when accounting for wider costs such as health, fossil fuels are subsidised globally by more than US$ 5 trillion per year.

By investing in the green sector, and in oil, and in «research institutes» who make loud noises in favour of policies and PR that will push up the price of fossil fuel and subsidise green energy, he's not simply backing both horses in a two - horse race; he's backing two horses in two, one - horse races.

Rightfully the net gov» t take from fossil fuel production is a maximum to help gov; ts subsidise renewables and help minimise and ultimately eliminate fossil fuel greenhouse gas emissions.