This report updates our 2022 analysis on environmentally harmful subsidies (EHS). The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was adopted in December 2022 to protect and restore nature. The GBF included Target 18, the first quantitative EHS reduction goal, which commits parties to…
This is the Chinese version of our updated analysis of global environmentally harmful subsidies (EHS). (The English language version of this report, and associated commentary can be accessed here.)
Since our original analysis in 2022, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was…
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2024 (WNISR2024) assesses the status and trends of the international nuclear industry. Earth Track was pleased to have contributed to the report again this year, with the focus chapter Power Firming and Competitive Pressure on Nuclear Energy assessing how…
Eunomia: Tanzir Chowdhury, Kostas Patapatiou, Kate Briggs, Charlotte Taylor, Theresa Reichstadt, Magdelena Kaminska
QUNO: Ronald Steenblik, Andrés Naranjo
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9/19/2024
This interim report represents the first comprehensive attempt to identify and quantify subsidies received by the primary plastics polymer (PPP) production industry. The report specifically examines the stages of production from the processing of raw plastic materials—such as steam cracking of…
Despite 50 years of development and an estimated USD 83 billion in investments since the 1990s, carbon capture has failed to make a dent in carbon emissions. Carbon capture projects consistently fail, overspend, or underperform. In the United States, where most carbon capture projects operate with…
Industry-specific reviews of government subsidies have been much more common than analyses examining several natural resource sectors at once. Yet there is a great deal of overlap across sectors. Indeed, it is the combination of support provided by multiple levels of government and government…
This event was the Washington, DC launch of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2023 (WNISR 2023). It was co-sponsored by Princeton's Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment and the Program on Science and Global Security.
The Washington event included presentations on global…
I was happy to join Dina Rasor and Greg Williams on their Climate Money Watchdog podcast to discuss fossil fuel subsidies. Long ago Dina founded the Project on Military Procurement, which later became the Project on Government Oversight (POGO). I have used POGO's work for years, including quite…
The Permian is by far the largest oil producing basin in the United States and the second largest for natural gas. Firms in the region have been highly profitable, yet have continued to benefit from a wide array of government subsidies. Some of the subsidies have been in place for decades, though…
Mycle Schneider, Antony Froggatt, Julie Hazemann, Timothy Judson, Doug Koplow, M.V.Ramana, Tasujiro Suzuki, Christian von Hirschhausen, Harmut Winkler, Alexander James Wimmers
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12/8/2023
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2023 (WNISR2023) provides a comprehensive overview (in 549 pages) of the status and trends within the international nuclear industry, including data on nuclear power plant starts and operation, production, fleet age, and construction. The WNISR evaluates the…
Even California has scores of policies and programs with the potential to subsidize oil and gas exploration, production, refining, transport, and consumption. These conflict with the state's long-term commitment to be a clean energy leader. Earth Track reviewed the policy environment in the state to…
An overview on the varied approaches used to subsidize industries and how the scale of support flowing to fossil fuels and other environmentally harmful activities undermines efforts to decarbonize the economy and protect global biodiversity. The slides highlight how at present subsidies to fossil…
Industrial subsidies take on a growing importance in trade discussions. Yet assessing the scope and scale of government interventions in manufacturing remains notoriously difficult due to a persistent lack of reliable and comparable data. With many governments failing to provide sufficient…
This article was originally published onBloomberg Tax here. Reproduced with permission. Published January 13, 2023. Copyright 2023 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (800-372-1033)
Despite calls for the reform of incentives, including subsidies, harmful to biodiversity, including under the Convention on Biological Diversity and its 2011-2020 Aichi Targets, very few countries to date have undertaken what is considered the first step in this process, namely, to identify and…
Doug Koplow (Earth Track) and Greg LeRoy (Good Jobs First)
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12/2/2022
The discussion of this topic within the Boston Area Sustainability Group started with reflections on the effectiveness of incentives to accelerate adoption of sustainability-minded solutions (e.g., residential/community solar, electric cars) and the creation of green jobs. That path quickly led…
From 2010 to 2021, the United States’ major trade and development finance institutions, the U.S. Export Import Bank (EXIM) and U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), provided almost five times as much support to fossil fuels as to renewables – USD 51.6 billion compared to USD 10.9…
As with earlier reports, The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2022 (WNISR2022) provides a comprehensive overview of global nuclear power plant data, including information on age, operation, production, and construction of reactors. But due to the unprecedented situation in Ukraine, WNISR2022…
Ron Steenblik and Doug Koplow join the Cosmopolicast (part of the Cosmopolitan Globalist) and hosts Claire Berlinski and Vivek Y. Kelkar for an hour of discussion about energy subsidies and environmentally-harmful subsidies. How did we end up working on this issue? How big are they? How can people…
Harvard Management Company is responsible for investing the Harvard endowment. The annual Climate Report is the primary way that HMC communicates with the general public on its actions to move the portfolio to net zero by 2050. Though this is the second year the Climate Report has been produced…
