Posts Tagged ‘Gertz’
Green Diary Rescue & Open Thread: Fossil Fuel
Emily Gertz at Grist writes: G20 cans fossil-fuel subsidies, but fails to make other climate-conserving moves On 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 propo