COP28 should be seen as a “historic” failure instead of a “historic,” game-changing agreement. A historic climate agreement would be one that includes unwavering commitments to end fossil fuel subsidies; ban banks from funding new fossil fuel projects, as they have pumped trillions of ...
Of the 200-plus organisations petitioning federal officials, 32 were international oil and gas firms, many of whom were pushing to ensure access for blue hydrogen (made with fossil gas and carbon capture and storage) to subsidies, OpenSecrets reported. And as well as outnumbering organisations fr...
spreading through a growing BRICS membership into Africa, Central, and South America. They have already secured Saudi Arabia as an outright ally, for which the western alliance with its anti-fossil fuel policies has itself to blame. Other members of ...
As always, ICRG and related PRS data continue to be the gold standard of all geopolitical risk data among the scholarly and research communities. For example, in a very interesting IMF Working Paper that used our ICRG data, the authors considered the impact of removing fossil fuel...
Federal support might include loan programs, grants, subsidies, and other measures that foster broadband connectivity, computer access, education, and training. The Adoption and Use Working Group proved to be especially dynamic, active, and productive, in part because of the Group's strong ...
Also there is no single “cost of oil” for any individual consumer, prices are variable nation to nation (depending in part on tax policy and subsidies) and individuals drive different amounts. Can you explain how you calculate total cost of oil, some vehicles use gasoil and others petrol...
In the early weeks of the year, as it became clear that the pandemic would be the story of 2020, we at BloombergNEF found ourselves fielding a continuous stream of questions about how energy transition and climate action would be affected. Could it be th
The science is clear that efforts to expand health insurance coverage—notably the ACA and Medicaid expansion—improve outcomes,7 but the new administration is expected to end ACA subsidies and to find ways to limit Medicaid coverage and enrollment. The courts will soon rule on Braidwood ...
“These new restrictions run in parallel with the $50 billion in subsidies that Congress recently passed and that chipmakers will get for setting up chip manufacturing facilities in the US, the purpose being to decouple the entire high-tech supply chain...
Common examples of mercantilist trade practices by China are: currency manipulation, rampant intellectual property theft, product dumping (selling products at below-market prices), and government subsidies for Chinese companies. These unfair trade practices have created an uneven playing field. According ...