April 12, 2022 | Commentary
  • Type of publication: Commentary
  • Research or In The Media: Commentary
  • Research Area: Environmental and Energy Economics
  • Publication Date: 2022-04-12
  • Authors:
    • Add Authors: Jayati Ghosh
    • Add Authors: Debamanyu Das
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>> Read article published by Project Syndicate

PERI's Jayati Ghosh and co-author Debamanyu Das discuss how Western governments have been heavily subsidizing their own fossil-fuel industries even as they exhort much poorer countries to do more to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. But the full extent of these subsidies has been hidden by the methods used to measure them.

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