āTalk is cheap: how G20 governments are financing climate disasterā
G20 governments put four times more money into fossil energy generation than into renewables - despite their official commitment to the Paris Climate Agreementās aims, NGOs including WWF, Urgewald and Friends of the Earth say in a press release. In a reported titled āTalk is cheapā, the NGOs show how the G20 governments ācontinue to provide sweetheart loans, guarantees, and other forms of preferential financing to fossil fuel projects" - potentially undermining the Paris Agreementās goal to keep global warming well below two degrees Celsius. Given the current US administrationās intention to leave the accord, other G20 members had to āstep upā and shift public finance from ābrownā to āgreenā activities, they argue.
See the press release in English and the report in English .
For background, see the Āé¶¹ĪŽĀė°ę dossier The energy transition and climate change.