Savings from reduced consumer and producer
subsidies can be used
for large ‐ scale
renewables, energy efficiency and public transport systems, and, in developing countries,
toward the rural poor, through
for instance cleaner cooking and lighting such as distributed
renewables and clean cook stoves.
«Germany has set up a system of legislation and
subsidies to move away from fossil fuels
toward renewable energy,» Martin Kaiser, executive director of programs
for Greenpeace International in Berlin, told me.