This report examines the wide-reaching reasons – which are overwhelmingly supported by science – to remove EU fuel subsidies
BUSINESS ORGANISATIONS AND NGOS CALL
ON EU DECISION-MAKERS TO REMOVE PUBLIC
SUBSIDIES TO FOSSIL FUEL CONSUMPTION
The EU and its Member States must fulfil their commitment to stop public money from supporting wasteful economic activities that degrade our environment.
The EU can deliver on all of these promises and laws IF it bans fossil fuel subsidies
This mind-mapping tool identifies the International and EU commitments that call directly or indirectly for the elimination of fossil fuels (indirect or direct) subsidies. By clicking on this tool you will discover not only the political and legal commitment but what they should mean in practice i.e; climate change commitments will mean reaching climate neutrality by 2050.
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We strongly support the Commission’s proposal to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies in the revised ETD. However, we consider that some aspects of the proposal have not been ambitious enough when it comes to setting price signals consistent with the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that we must achieve in the.
EU tax exemptions for fuel are harmful subsidies that reduce the costs of fishing, therefore leading to an increase of fishing capacity, and thus contributing to overfishing in the European Union
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“For the EU this means fuel tax subsidies that perpetuate the most polluting and ocean-destructive fishing fleets must be ceased immediately, and a rapid transition to low-impact, low-carbon fishing must be supported instead.”
NGOs are calling for a rigorous plan to decarbonise the fishing sector and for the EU to stick to its commitments under the Green Deal, ahead of a meeting between AGRIFISH and the Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius on March 21, in response to an emerging crisis.
The EU fishing fleet receives a tax break of between €759 million and €1.5 billion from fuel tax subsidies each year, as well as producing nearly 7.3 million tons of CO2 just from burning fuel, according to a report published today by the Our Fish campaign.
ClientEarth lawyer Flaminia Tacconi said: “This revision risks maintaining the status quo in sectors like fisheries, with only very low taxation for fishing vessel fuel in EU waters and no taxation at all on fuel for vessels operating beyond EU waters. The fishing industry, and in particular the large-scale vessels.