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.

Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform Roundtable

United States and the World Bank co-hosted

On 11 April 2014 the Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform, the United States and the World Bank co-hosted a Roundtable on fossil fuel subsidy reform in the margins of the recent World Bank/IMF Spring meetings. The event was an opportunity to support reform efforts by providing participants (including a range of representatives of G20 and APEC economies) with updates on peer review processes currently under way through the G20 and APEC; first-hand accounts from countries (Finland, Mexico, Indonesia and the Dominican Republic) about their experiences with reform; and updates from international organisations on the tools and initiatives available to support reform.

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