28 May 2019

What We Can Measure, We Can Manage: Methodology for global fossil fuel subsidy reporting launched

A new UN Environment report, drafted in close collaboration with the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s (IISD) Global Subsidies Initiative and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), provides the first internationally agreed-upon methodology that will help UN countries increase transparency on fossil fuel subsidies.

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The Friends group was formed in June 2010 to support G20 and APEC leaders’ commitments to phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. The Friends encourage the G20 and APEC to implement their initiative as soon as possible, with maximum ambition and transparency.

Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform are

  • Costa Rica
  • Denmark
  • Ethiopia
  • Finland
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Uruguay
  • Netherlands