Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Finance Climate Action, Not Fossil Fuel Subsidies : Activists Blast Priorities of Biggest Polluters

As delegates to the U.N. climate summit debate over how to meet a pledge to provide $100 billion a year in climate aid by 2020, critics note industrialized countries spend more than five times as much money on subsidizing the fossil fuel industry as they do on helping poorer countries adapt to global warming. We speak with the activists raising these concerns inside the climate talks in Warsaw, including Stephen Kretzmann, executive director of Oil Change International, which has just released the report, "Fossil Fuel Subsidies Continue to Overshadow Climate Finance."
See all of our coverage from the U.N. climate summit in Warsaw, Poland:


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