The truth behind the EU’s National Energy and Climate Plans

24 August 2020

Investigate Europe

Environment/Dirty subsidies

The truth behind the EU’s National Energy and Climate Plans

Investigate Europe

24 August 2020

About Dirty subsidies

2020 was supposed to be the year the EU would launch its ambitious plan to tackle the climate crisis. But why does Europe sabotage its climate goals by subsidising the fossil sector by more than €137 billion per year?

Investigate Europe’s research reveals a litany of evasions, missed deadlines, questionable claims and ignorance…real and feigned. Some member states even openly state that they do not plan to phase out fossil fuel subsidies.

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