Fossil Fuel Subsidies Surged to Record $7 Trillion in 2022

24 Aug 2023 | Abstracted from IMF

"...consumers did not pay for over $5 trillion of environmental costs last year...scrapping explicit and implicit fossil-fuel subsidies would prevent 1.6 million premature deaths annually, raise government revenues

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