Flutterby™! : Half a trillion in subsidies for fossil fuels

I actually think this is low, because we should count much of our foreign policy and military spending in the "subsidizing fossil fuels" category, but Fortune: 10 Things You Should Know About Global Clean Energy mentions:

The fossil fuel industry collects far more subsidies than clean energy sectors: The IEA says that the fossil fuel industry received $490 billion in subsidies in 2014. That's truly shocking considering coal, oil and gas are relatively mature industries. In comparison clean power received $112 billion in global subsidies in 2014. The subsidies for clean energy will rise to $170 billion by 2040, the IEA said.

And I wanted to put this place somewhere I could find it, because I'm writing another piece about technological solutions to ecological problems and a half a trillion bucks a year in subsidies is a part of why we're getting Uber and AirBNB rather than energy solutions.