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Canadian subsidies for fossil fuels are dropping and support for renewables is rising, but there's still a hefty gap—nearly three times more financial support to fossil fuels than renewables. "Canada is trending in the right direction, using more public money to roll out renewables and less to prop up fossil fuel sectors, but it is too early to celebrate," IISD's Nhat Do said.
At the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 28) in 2023, a group of countries, now called COFFIS, issued a joint Ministerial Statement laying out concrete actions that they would undertake to jointly work toward phasing out fossil fuel subsidies.