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We Don’t Have Time and United Nations Development Programme hosted a multi-part virtual series called “Dino Talks,” which convened expert panels to discuss various angles on fossil fuels’ entrenchment in our global environment and economy.
The first event, which gave a primer on fossil fuel subsidies, featured SEI Research Fellow Ploy Achakulwisut and her expertise on the subject.
Video courtesy We Don’t Have Time and UNDP
According to the International Monetary Fund, US$11 million per minute is spent on fossil fuel subsidies. This estimate encompasses explicit government support for fossil fuel production and consumption, and implicit subsidies that account for public health and environmental damages of fossil fuel use, such as air pollution and traffic accidents.
We are heading towards a climate disaster, so why do we still subsidize the major cause of this disaster? In this first episode, we discuss the global fossil fuel production gap and the impacts of fossil fuel subsidies. We look at what the money could be spent on instead, hearing from high-level speakers about the global situation and the opportunities that lie ahead if we bring them to a close.
Introduction: Host Nick Nuttall, Strategic Communications Director of We Don’t Have Time and co-host Boaz Paldi, Global Partnerships & Campaigns, UNDP, present the Dino Talk series and we introduce We Don’t Have Time, UNDP and the #DontChooseExtinction Campaign.
In-depth discussion: Listen to experts discuss the global situation and the impacts of fossil fuel subsidies.
Summary and end of broadcast: Reflections and concluding remarks
Initiative / The Carbon Lock-In Initiative seeks to uncover and address the barriers that uphold the fossil fuel-based economy.
Initiative / Esta iniciativa busca descubrir y abordar las barreras que sostienen la economía basada en combustibles fósiles.
Feature / Read the testimony of SEI's Peter Erickson and watch the Earth Day hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on the Environment.
SEI brief / Reform of fossil fuel subsidies is attracting attention as a way to meet the objectives for the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Feature / A new Nature article lays out the economic, political and symbolic effects of subsidies – and why their removal is important to a low-carbon transition.
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