Global Briefing: Four-in-five countries failed to meet deadline for tackling 'harmful' subsidies

Stuart Stone
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Just 21 countries met a target to identify all environmentally 'harmful' subsidies, Spain rolls out new EV incentives, and Canberra reveals next stage of strategy to reach net zero by 2045

Eighty-four per cent of countries failed to meet a target to identify subsidies that could be environmentally "harmful" by the end of last year, according to a new Carbon Brief analysis published this...

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