While EU Member States have long made a commitment to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, the majority of them do not plan to do so, but worse, the United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, Poland and Slovenia plan to introduce new subsidies by 2030, according to an analysis of the 28 Member States' integrated National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) published by NGOs on Monday 9 September.
The study, carried out by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Friends of the Earth Netherlands (FoE) and...