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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

Officials cast it as one major part of a process that also includes a phaseout of public financing for domestic fossil fuel projects through Crown agencies like Export Development Canada. Those guidelines are due to be released in 2024. In a release Monday, Oil Change International placed the total at $50 billion since 2019.

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Keeping on the Straight and Narrow

Chris Hall

On 25 April, the UK government launched its Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) to develop a transition plan disclosure framework. There are other areas in which the TPT will have to set their own expectations, spanning from reliance on carbon offsetting and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies to transparency on climate lobbying. .

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Energy Transition Accelerator

Chris Hall

Mobilising public and private capital to fund the net zero transition efforts of emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) has been a central theme of discussions at COP27 in Egypt. . This explainer will explore the blueprint for the US ETA and consider the role of VCMs is channelling finance from developed markets to EMDEs. .