UK singled out among G20 for bolstering fossil fuel subsidies

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New report claims UK is spending £6bn a year to prop up its fossil fuel industry

Just two weeks ahead of a major UN climate summit in Paris, a new report has revealed how the UK is spending almost £6bn a year on subsidies to prop up its increasingly uneconomic fossil fuel sector...

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