END ALL SUBSIDIES ON FOSSIL FUELS!
A new International Monetary Fund (IMF) study shows that US$5.2
trillion was spent globally on fossil fuel subsidies in 2017.
The equivalent of over 6.5% of global GDP of that year, it also represented
a half-trillion dollar increase since 2015 when China ($1.4 trillion),
the United States ($649 billion) and Russia ($551 billion) were the
largest subsidizers. -- Jun 15, 2019
Fossil
Fuels Receive $5.3 Trillion A Year In Subsidies Worldwide,
May 22, 2015
The world pays $5.3 trillion a year in hidden costs to keep burning
fossil fuels, according to a new report from the International Monetary
Fund (IMF). This is in addition to the $492 billion in direct subsidies
offered by governments around the world — write-offs and write-downs
and land-use loopholes.
Fossil
Fuel Subsidies Cost $5 Trillion Annually, May 19,
2015
The International Monetary Fund notes that subsides for burning
fossil fuels enrich the wealthy and make air pollution worse
Big
Oil Gets $10 Million From Taxpayers Every Minute, May 18,
2015
Governments
give fossil fuel companies $5.3 trillion in
subsidies every year
—the equivalent of $10 million every minute of every day
... and more than the world spends on health care, according to
a new estimate by the International Monetary Fund.
WSJ,
May 18, 2015
Consumers should be paying a whopping $5
trillion more a year for energy
to cover the hidden health and environmental costs of
using fossil fuels
IMF, International
Monetary Fund, May
18, 2015
How Large Are Global Energy Subsidies?
July 14, 2016
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), in 2014
fossil-fuel
subsidies of various sorts added
up to a staggering $493 billion worldwide—far
more than those for the development of renewable forms of energy.
The G-20 group of leading industrial powers agreed in 2009
to phase out such subsidies, but a meeting of G-20 energy ministers
in Beijing in June failed to adopt a timeline to complete the phase-out
process, suggesting that little progress will be made when the heads
of state of those countries meet in Hangzhou, China, this September.
Biggest economies still backing fossil fuels,
Nov 12, 2015
Analysts say the world’s 20 leading economies give nearly four
times as much in subsidies to fossil fuel production as total
global subsidies to renewable energy.
The governments of the world’s major industrialised
countries, the G20 group, are providing more than US$450
billion a year to support the production of fossil fuels.
OECD-Studie:
Staaten fördern Öl, Gas und Kohle statt Klimaschutz,
21.09.15
Der Klimaschutz steht hinten an: International subventionieren die
Staaten weiterhin fossile Energien - dabei könnten sie das Geld
viel besser für den Klimaschutz verwenden. Das geht aus einer Studie
der OECD hervor.
Bis zu 178 Mrd Euro steckten die Staaten
jährlich noch immer in Kohle, Erdgas und Erdöl. Doch statt weiterhin
fossile Energieträger zu subventionieren, bräuchten die Staaten
das Geld im Kampf gegen den Klimawandel. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt
eine Studie der OECD.
Kohleatlas:
Daten und Fakten über einen globalen Brennstoff,
Juni 2015
In der EU erhält die Kohlewirtschaft inzwischen jährlich fast zehn
Milliarden Euro Steuergelder. Das meiste gibt's in Deutschland.
Every year, the coal industry in the EU receives nearly 10
billion euros of taxpayers' money. Germany contributes the biggest
amount.
Nov
27, 2012
In
2011, fossil fuels subsidies amounted to $523
billion globally, up almost 30% from 2010
and six times greater than subsidies for renewable
energy.
Source
30.11.2012
Weltweit beliefen sich 2011 die
Subventionen für fossile Brennstoffe auf 523
Milliarden Dollar.
Diese Summe ist das Sechsfache der
Subventionen für regenerative Energien und darüber hinaus
eine Steigerung von 30 Prozent zum Vorjahr. Quelle
Dec 03, 2012
Fossil
fuel subsidies five times greater than climate finance
Dec 03, 2012
Rich
Countries Spend Five Times More On Fossil Fuel Subsidies Than Climate
Aid
In 2009, world leaders at
the G20 summit agreed that phasing out fossil fuel subsidies should
be a top priority. Three years later, with very little progress
on actually repealing those subsidies, promises for reform ring
hollow.
Rich countries spent $58 billion on fossil fuel subsidies in 2011.
That’s roughly five times the amount they spent on “fast start”
financing for climate adaptation and mitigation in developing countries,
according to an analysis released today at the Doha climate talks
by Oil Change International. The average yearly commitment from
developed countries for climate financing over the last three years
was $11 billion — a fifth of what they spent to support the fossil
fuel industry. “What this analysis shows is that governments gathered
in Doha to supposedly fight climate change need to put their money
where their mouths are,” said Oil Change International’s Executive
Director Stephen Kretzmann in a statement. “It should be plainly
obvious that you can’t solve a problem when you’re spending vastly
more to continue creating it than you are to fix it.” Fossil fuel
subsidies have become an important fight in the climate advocacy
world. Measures that encourage inefficient use of energy, such as
fossil fuel subsidies, must be eliminated. In the U.S., the fossil
fuel subsidy issue may again take center stage. During the campaign,
President Obama called for repealing $4 billion in yearly tax breaks
for the top oil companies.
The
Global Climate Change Lobby
Inside the battle to influence the most important environmental
treaty of our time
Shift the Subsidies --
Tracking the flow of public money to energy projects around the
world
Dirty Energy
Money -- Challenging dirty energy's dominance of our
democracy
The
Price of Oil -- The price of oil per barrel doesn’t
include all of oil’s hidden costs
Deutschland
Das
Märchen vom teuren Ökostrom,
06.11.12
Wind, Wasser und Sonne liefern schon heute die Energie billiger
als Atom- und Kohlekraftwerke. Die hohen Subventionen für konventionelle
Erzeuger, die nicht auf der Stromrechnung erscheinen, müssen die
Steuerzahler tragen.
... So wurde
- Atomstrom seit 1970 mit mindestens 187 Milliarden
Euro gefördert,
- Energie aus Stein- und Braunkohle mit 177 Milliarden
beziehungsweise mit 65 Milliarden Euro.
- Im Vergleich dazu kommen erneuerbare Energien gerade einmal auf
54 Milliarden Euro. ...
11.11.14
Konzerne
erhalten Milliardensubventionen für Ölprojekte
Laut einer Studie profitieren ausgerechnet Energiekonzerne von den
massiven Subventionen. Die führenden Industrie- und Schwellenländer
subventionieren die Erkundung von Ölvorkommen mit 71
Milliarden Euro pro Jahr - und untergraben damit ihre eigene
Klimapolitik.
Die größten Beträge kommen aus Großbritannien, Russland, den USA und
Australien.
Allein Washington hat Öl- und Gaskonzernen im vergangenen Jahr 5,1
Milliarden Dollar (4,1 Milliarden Euro) zur Unterstützung der Erkundung
von Vorkommen gezahlt. Dies sei doppelt so viel wie 2009 gewesen.
Die Autoren der Studie kritisierten auch Investitionen staatlicher
Konzerne als eine besonders verbreitete Form der Subvention in Ländern
wie Brasilien, China, Indien, Mexiko, Russland und Saudi-Arabien.
Demnach reichte die Unterstützung von zwei bis fünf Milliarden Dollar
in Russland, Mexiko und Indien bis zu neun Milliarden Dollar in China,
elf Milliarden in Brasilien und 17 Milliarden in Saudi-Arabien.
Die direkten oder versteckten Subventionen seien eine "öffentlich
finanzierte Beihilfe für kohlendioxidintensive Konzerne" zum Schaden
der erneuerbaren Energien, heißt es in der Studie.
Ohne die Subventionierung der Erkundung der Ölvorkommen und weitere
Hilfen wäre ein Großteil der heutigen Öl- und Gasförderprojekte nicht
profitabel.
Dec 23, 2014
The
Fossil Fuel Industry Spent More Than $721 Million During 2014’s
Midterm Elections
The 2014 midterm elections saw a wave of Republican candidates elected
and re-elected to federal office, many of whom are now rearing to
make the environment their
first casualty of the 114th Congress. As it turns out, the fossil
fuel industry may have had something to do with that.
