Monday, April 17, 2017

World fossil-fuel direct subsidy [not externalities] at 3.8% of GDP

Motherboard : "For the last year in his model, 2010, Stefanski found that the total global direct and indirect financial costs of all fossil fuel subsidies was $1.82 trillion, or 3.8 percent of global GDP. He also found that the subsidies meant much higher carbon emissions released into our atmosphere."