Governments should use Covid-19 recovery efforts as an opportunity to phase out support for fossil fuels, say OECD and IEA. 05/06/2020
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris
OECD Publishing - Paris
2020
epidemic disease ; economic recovery ; sustainable development ; energy policy
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"As governments design stimulus measures for economies hit by the Covid-19 crisis, they should seize the opportunity of historically low oil prices to redirect some of the half a trillion dollars spent annually supporting fossil fuels into sustainable investments including low-carbon energy, according to the OECD and the International Energy Agency (IEA)..."
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