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News Digest Item
06 Jul 2017

ā€œTalk is cheap: how G20 governments are financing climate disasterā€

WWF / Urgewald / Friends of the Earth et al.

G20 governments put four times more money into fossil energy generation than into renewables - despite their official commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement’s aims, NGOs including WWF, Urgewald and Friends of the Earth say in a press release. In a reported titled ā€œTalk is cheapā€, the NGOs show how the G20 governments ā€œcontinue to provide sweetheart loans, guarantees, and other forms of preferential financing to fossil fuel projects" - potentially undermining the Paris Agreement’s goal to keep global warming well below two degrees Celsius. Given the current US administration’s intention to leave the accord, other G20 members had to ā€œstep upā€ and shift public finance from ā€˜brown’ to ā€˜green’ 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.  

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