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Our submission to the UNFCCC climate finance negotiations

The COP30 presidency has asked stakeholders to submit their views regarding the “Baku to Belém Roadmap to 1.3T”, aiming at scaling up climate finance to USD 1.3 trillion yearly. The Stop Fossil Subsidies campaign has submitted this document. The submission underscores that fossil fuel subsidies—over USD 1.1 trillion globally in 2023—erode fiscal space in both developed and developing countries while driving the climate crisis. Ending these subsidies would generate significant emissions reductions, improve public revenues, and create resources to fund climate action. The campaign points to longstanding but unfulfilled commitments, from the 2009 G20 pledge to the 2024 G7 promise to

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Mid-2025 recap: What we have done on fossil subsidies in the EU

An answer to our open letter Having delivered an open letter in late 2024 signed by over 30 groups and 130 academics demanding an end to all fossil subsidies by 2025, the campaign received a formal response from the European Commission in February 2025. The Commission admitted that only 43% of EU fossil fuel subsidies are scheduled to end by 2025—a commitment the campaign calls both insufficient and incomplete, since many member states lack phase‑out plans. Fighting for data transparency In February the campaign sent a request to access the energy subsidy inventory underlying the yearly Study on Energy Subsidies, receiving

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COFFIS Observatory: New analysis reveals major gaps in countries’ commitment to ending fossil subsidies

The COFFIS Observatory, a new initiative by Stop Fossil Subsidies, has published the first in-depth review of fossil fuel subsidy inventories submitted by members of the Coalition on Phasing Out Fossil Fuel Incentives Including Subsidies (COFFIS).  Despite the ambition declared at its launch during COP28, only three out of the 12 original COFFIS members have met the basic requirement to submit a fossil fuel subsidy inventory. The remaining members have either failed to submit altogether or submitted documents that fall far short of what’s needed to achieve the coalition’s stated goals. COFFIS was launched to restore credibility after over 15 years

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EU fossil fuel subsidies remain high amid transparency issues

The latest Study on energy subsidies and other government interventions in the European Union (2024) has recently been published. The report covers energy subsidies in the broad sense, including fossil and renewable, in various forms. The Stop Fossil Subsidies campaign notes a marginal improvement in the amount of fossil fuel subsidies (FFS) disbursed in the EU. Despite pledges committing to more transparency by Commissioner Hoekstra, serious transparency issues remain. Fossil fuel subsidies at €111 billion in 2023 According to the report, FFS more than doubled in 2022, reaching €136 billion, up from an average of €59 billion between 2015 and 2020,

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