US and China release fossil fuel subsidy peer reviews

Climate Change News: The documents, released on Monday by China’s G20 presidency, reveal the long road ahead. The G20 has commited to eliminate “inefficient” subsidies for coal, oil and gas in the medium term and the G7, of which the US is a member, has tightened the timeline to 2025.

Of 16 policies marked for elimination by the US, all but three concluded with the sentence: “The United States Congress must pass enabling legislation for this proposal to become law”.

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