Fossil fuel companies must be held responsible for the extreme heat gripping Europe by paying permanent windfall taxes to help cover the mounting health costs. A new study by World Weather Attribution found that climate change is “unequivocally” the driving force behind Europe’s record-breaking heatwave.
As London Climate Action Week unfolded against the backdrop of one of the UK’s most extreme heatwaves, journalists, frontline voices and campaigners gathered for a landmark Make Polluters Pay event highlighting the growing political, legal and public momentum to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate damage.
The organiser hopes that this initiative will inspire more community-driven environmental activities in the future and encourage the public to take part in keeping public spaces clean.
The US is shooting itself in the foot by becoming the only country in the world unwilling to participate in humanity's great race to save the planet and future generations.
Doctors, nurses, Indigenous leaders and activists denounce the impacts of the climate emergency on health in Brazil and around the world.
We call on countries with the greatest historical emissions and highest capacity to pay – and who have so far failed to do their fair share of global climate action – to include plans to equitably phase out fossil fuels and provide public finance for just transitions worldwide in their NDCs.
