G20 cans fossil-fuel subsidies, but fails to make other climate-conserving moves
By Emily Gertz • Sep 26th, 2009 • Category: Pittsburgh, PolicyOn Friday afternoon, President Barack Obama formally announced that the world’s 20 major developed and developing nations had agreed to gradually eliminate fossil-fuel subsidies. It was the only climate-specific policy directive to come out of the Group of 20 (G20) Summit in Pittsburgh, and it fell far short in the view of climate activists, who were hoping for a firm proposal on “climate finance”—G20 aid to poor nations for help in adapting to and mitigating climate change. …read more at Grist…
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Emily Gertz is Emily is a freelance journalist and editor who has written on business, design, health, and other facets of the environment for Grist, Dwell, Plenty, Worldchanging, and other publications. She is the blogger-in-residence on Global Warming for Change.org, the leading social networking for good website. Emily is participating on assignment from Grist.org. Grist is a leading environmental website that has published since 1999 and has over 1 million views each month.
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