The GSI and the Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform organized an event on 7th December 2015 at COP21 in Paris, entitled “Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Climate Change: National action and international phase out”. The speakers included several prominent ministers from FFFSR member countries such as Switzerland, Sweden and Norway, Fatih Birol, Executive Director of […]

At COP21 Leaders Day on 30 November, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Rt Hon John Key, along with the Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform and The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group, convened a high-level event to formally present the Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform Communiqué to UNFCCC Executive Secretary Figueres.

Paris—30 November 2015—The Paris climate change talks saw an unprecedented coalition of leaders supporting the need to end the billions of dollars spent every year on subsidising fossil fuels. 40 countries and hundreds of businesses and influential organisations have stood behind the Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform Communiqué presented to UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres by New Zealand Prime Minister John Key.