Fossil-fuel subsidies assessed

Fossil fuel subsidies and health.

In calling for a switch of fossil fuel subsidies to funding of universal health coverage, Vinay Gupta and colleagues (June, 2015) miss two health-relevant issues: all fossil fuels are not the same and all subsidies are not the same. Liquefi ed petroleum gas (LPG) has major, direct health advantages in household cooking in countries of low and middle income, its primary use. Indeed, the Global B...

Recycling fuel subsidies as health subsidies.

Long‐term climate policy implications of phasing out fossil fuel subsidies

It is often argued that fossil fuel subsidies hamper the transition towards a sustainable energy supply as they incentivize wasteful consumption. We assess implications of a subsidy phase‐ out for the mitigation of climate change and the low‐carbon transformation of the energy system, using the global energy–economy model REMIND. We compare our results with those obtained by the International E...

Fossil Fuel and Food Security

Fossil fuel biodegradation: laboratory studies.

Biodegradation of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons of creosote by undefined bacterial cultures was shown to be accompanied by the accumulation of neutral and acidic oxidation products. Formation of a number of identified neutral products is accounted for by demonstration of anomalous actions of an arene dioxygenase on the benzylic methylene and methylene carbons of napthenoaromatic hydrocar...