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Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies is crucial to mitigating climate change – but politically an unpopular task. Past reforms focused on making fossil fuels more expensive, ignoring the possibility that reform can also be tackled by making fossil fuels less important.

Technological innovation, often induced by national and sub-national policies, is a key driver of global climate and energy policy ambition and action. Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement will hardly affect this trend.