Events

Timely seminars and high level events help promote reform. Events are ordered chronologically and include an impressive number of influential speakers from around the world.

15 September 2021

Webinar: Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform for Green Recovery and Greater Climate Ambition

Location: Virtual

Fossil fuel subsidy reform is a necessary prerequisite to green recovery and a key tool for increasing climate ambition and motivating clean energy transition. This virtual event, organized by the Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform (FFFSR) in collaboration with the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) and with support from the […]

10 March 2020

Climate Change, Trade, and Sustainable Development

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

How can trade rules and climate policy be made mutually supportive? On Tuesday 10 March, the New Zealand Embassy and SEI will host a seminar Climate Change, Trade, and Sustainable Development: Capturing Synergies on the Road to COP 26. This timely discussion in the run-up to COP 26 in Glasgow will bring together government officials, […]

05 December 2019

Raising NDC ambition to reach climate action goals: Fossil fuel subsidies, energy pricing and swaps

Location: Nordic Pavilion in Hall 6, at IFEMA (Metro 8, Stop: Feria de Madrid)

How much can we reduce greenhouse gas emissions if we raise ambition with second-generation Nationally Determined Contributions? This panel and discussion will focus on sharing lessons and best practices on fossil fuel subsidy reform and pricing based on country experience. Experts will present results on GHG emission reduction from energy modelling research over 20 countries […]

10 October 2019

Fossil Fuel Subsidies Reform: International collaboration and the link between sustainability objectives and global trade

Location: World Trade Organisation, room E

12:00-13:30 The event will shine light on how the phasing-out of fossil fuel subsidies can advance sustainable consumption and production in the context of global trade. Fossil fuel subsidies were estimated at more than USD 500 billion in 2018. These subsidies have a series of negative effects: they are socially regressive, encourage wasteful consumption, increase […]

10 July 2019

Converting Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform into Opportunities for Climate Action

Location: Conference Room A, UN Headquarters, 405 East 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10017, USA

About Side event in the margins of the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2019, co-sponsored by Costa Rica, New Zealand, Switzerland, Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform, IISD/Global Subsidies Initiative and UNEP. Background Fossil-fuel subsidy reform is the missing piece of the climate change jigsaw and governments must deliver global actions to decrease emissions […]