Toggle Menu
A power line and metal power pole with a clear blue sky as a background.

News & Events

Stay up to date on all things GSI by following our upcoming events, webinars, latest news, press releases and announcements.

Events & Webinars

No Current Events

It looks like there are no events arranged for the future.

News, Press Releases, & Announcements

News: Fossil-fuel subsidies round-up: March and April 2010

May 18, 2010
Following announcements that fossil-fuel subsidies will be phased out, from the G-20, the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and a number of independent countries, including Iran, Nigeria and Bahrain, Subsidy Watch each month highlights important news stories that touch on this theme.

Read More

Press Release: Press release: GSI tackles reform of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies ahead of G-20 meeting of finance ministers

April 25, 2010
GENEVA—April 21, 2010—The International Institute for Sustainable Development's Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) has issued a five-part series of reports into how nations might remove fossil-fuel subsidies, on the eve of a meeting of G-20 finance ministers in Washington this week. GSI's Untold Billions: Fossil-fuel subsidies, their impacts and the path to reform provides necessary research and analysis to support the commitment by the G20 and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum to phase out inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies.

Read More

News: Fossil-fuel subsidies round-up: February 2010

March 8, 2010
Following announcements that fossil-fuel subsidies will be phased out, from the G-20, the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and a number of independent countries, including Iran, Nigeria and Bahrain, Subsidy Watchhas decided each month to highlight important news stories that touch on this theme.

Read More

News: Fossil-fuel subsidies round-up: January 2010

February 8, 2010
Following announcements that fossil-fuel subsidies will be phased out by the G-20, the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and a number of independent countries, including Iran, Nigeria and Bahrain, Subsidy Watchwill be highlighting the most interesting news stories that touch on this theme each month.

Read More

News: Iran parliament rejects call to withdraw subsidy reform bill

January 10, 2010
Controversy continues to surround Iran's bill on subsidy reform, with the government and parliament unable to agree on how the saved revenues should be managed. Tension has simmered since the parliament introduced an amendment to the bill in November 2009, which established that revenues would be saved in a special account for public spending.

Read More

News: Car-scrapping schemes boost European market in 2009, but at what cost?

January 10, 2010
The European Automobile Manufacturer's Association (ACEA) reports that passenger car sales in the first eleven months of 2009 show that car-scrapping schemes - programs in which vehicle owners are given money by the state to trade in old vehicles for new, more efficient ones - are a successful way to support car industries struggling in the recession.

Read More

News: GSI call for proposals: Canadian oil industry study

December 5, 2009
The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is conducting a research program on fossil-fuel subsidies as part of its Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI). We are currently welcoming proposals for a case study on subsidies to the petroleum industry in Canada. The report will form part of a series researching subsidies to specific energy sectors in both developing and developed countries.

Read More

News: Wasteful renewable-energy subsidies exposed by The Oregonian's Harry Esteve

December 5, 2009
According to an investigative report published on 31 October by Harry Esteve in The Oregonian newspaper, the administration of Ted Kulongoski, Oregon's Governor, intentionally underestimated the true cost of a tax credit created to subsidize renewable energy, in order to get it passed by the State Legislature. The Business Energy Tax Credit (BETC), was introduced in order to attract green investments to the State.

Read More