To build back better, we need to rethink global subsidies

Jan 25, 2021

Smoke and steam billows from Belchatow Power Station, Europe's largest coal-fired power plant operated by PGE Group, at night near Belchatow, Poland December 5, 2018. Picture taken December 5, 2018

Global energy subsidies totalled $5.2 trillion in 2019 - and that's just part of the picture Image: REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Echandi

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