After giving a climate talk to a community group the other day, one guy came up to me to "give feedback" (i.e. complain that I didn't focus enough on telling people how to cut their personal #CarbonFootprint - to use the phrase that #BP really wants us to focus on).

This led into a discussion about why individual consumer choices always have the system stacked against them. As part of that point, I mentioned the enormous scale of #DirtyEnergySubsidies (>$7t globally each year, though I focused on $11b annually in Australia, which is a widely cited figure based on a narrower definition of subsidy; he seemed like the kind of guy who wouldn't care as much if I wasn't talking about his country.)

Upon hearing of these subsidies (which were apparently news to him), he said "yeah, but how much tax do they contribute?"

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#Auspol #TaxJustice #FossilFuelSubsidies #DirtyEnergyDirtyPolitics #DirtyEnergy #SystemChangeNotClimateChange

💸 To leverage #Fiscal Policies, international agreement on core principles needs to be advanced, e.g., on the role of #CarbonPricing & removing #FossilFuelSubsidies to increasing #FiscalSpace, f.ex. by implementing the OECD agreement on a global minimal corporate tax rate.

RT @stopffsubsidies@twitter.com

Violet has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for action she took to demand the government deal with the aftermath of climate disasters and get ready for the next round of floods and fires.
#IStandWithViolet
#FreeVioletCoco

#FireProofAustralia
#FossilFuelSubsidies

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/stopffsubsidies/status/1602118238564847616

Fossil Fuels must stay in the ground!

Join our campaign! Sign our global petition to ban #FossilFuelSubsidies
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👉 Stopping subsidies could cut global #CO2 emissions by 1/3. https://t.co/a56bMVmxvT

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