The report reveals that none of the EU countries provide a comprehensive overview of their fossil fuel subsidies nor a concrete plan to phase them out in their draft NECPs, despite having committed to end fossil fuel subsidies ten years ago through the G20.
Some countries even deny that they provide fossil fuel subsidies even though data from pre-existing research, including from the European Commission itself, show that all EU Member States continue to subsidise the production and/or use of fossil fuels.
The report also reveals that five EU Member States (the United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, Poland and Slovenia) even intend to introduce new fossil fuel subsidies in the next decade.
The European Commission in June made a series of recommendations for improvement of final National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs), including one asking Member States to comprehensively report on their fossil fuel subsidies and to explain how they intend to gradually remove them.
Putting an end to fossil fuel subsidies would free up necessary financial resources to allow Europe to reach net-zero emissions as soon as possible.
The report, realised by experts from Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), and Friends of the Earth (FoE) Netherlands is accessible here.
