year when leaders of the G20 countries pledged to phase-out ‘inefficient’ fossil fuel subsidies, yet very little has happened six years later, according to Shelagh Whitley of the Overseas Development Institute.

average annual subsidies from G20 governments to fossil fuel production in 2013 and 2014.

times, the subsidies provided to fossil fuel production compared to all global subsidies to renewables in 2013, according to International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates.