The German government and Bundestag have made little progress in reducing environmental and climate-damaging subsidies in the past legislative period. According to internal assessments by experts on environmentally harmful subsidies from the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), the abolition of some subsidies was announced – but in most cases, these were not implemented or new environmentally harmful regulations were introduced. „The bottom line is that in recent years there has been neither the necessary environmental nor fiscal progress in the abolition of subsidies,“ the UBA explained to Table.Briefings.