Video - Scrap Fuel Subsidies and Price CO2, Urges World Bank

Reuters - trust.org - May 6, 2013

LONDON, May 6 (Reuters Point Carbon) – The world’s nations must scrap fossil fuel subsidies and put a price on emitting carbon dioxide if the planet is to avoid dangerous climate change, according to the president of the World Bank. The two measures are part of a five-point plan that the bank urged the world’s environment ministers to take, including building low carbon cities, improving agricultural practices and sharing new technology that will save energy.

“We need a global response equal to the scale of the climate problem.

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Petersberg Climate Dialogue IV
http://www.bmu.de/en/topics/climate-energy/climate/international-climate-policy/petersberg-climate-dialogue/

Background Paper
http://www.bmu.de/en/topics/climate-energy/climate/international-climate-policy/petersberg-climate-dialogue/petersberg-climate-dialogue-iv-background-paper-for-the-press/

Co-chairs' Conclusions (3 page .PDF file)
http://www.bmu.de/fileadmin/Daten_BMU/Download_PDF/Klimaschutz/petersberg4_conclusions_bf.pdf