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.

18 December 2014

The Heroes of Climate Change are Leaders Driving National Policy Reforms

Location: Lima, Peru

Despite slow but solid progress at the climate change negotiations in Lima, the Conference of Parties this year nonetheless saw promising discussions around national efforts to tackle climate change on-the-ground. This includes increasing calls in the last month to realize opportunities stemming from the removal of US$ 550 billion of subsidies to fossil fuels. 2014 has witnessed […]

11 April 2014

Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform Roundtable

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.

19 November 2013

Warsaw side event

On 19 November 2013 an event jointly organised by the Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform and the IISD Global Subsidies Initiative entitled ‘Reaping Emissions Reductions from Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform’ was held on the sidelines of the Warsaw Climate Change Conference. The event focused on the opportunities that fossil fuel subsidy reform holds for […]

08 July 2013

Friends’ presentation at the G20 Working Group on Energy Sustainability meeting

On Monday 8 July 2013, at the G20 Working Group on Energy and Sustainability meeting in St Petersburg, New Zealand on behalf of the Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform grouping (FFFSR) made a presentation on how the G20 might best structure its proposed voluntary peer reviews process for fossil fuel subsidy reform. Vangelis Vitalis […]

18 April 2013

FFFSR/G20 Roundtable

On Thursday 18 April 2013, a roundtable for G20 countries was held in Washington, D.C. on “Recent Progress and Peer Review of Fossil-fuel Subsidy Reform”. The programme included a high-level discussion on the imperative of fossil-fuel subsidy reform and recent progress, with presentations by: Benedict Clements, Division Chief, Expenditure Policy Division, IMF on key findings […]