As a strong El Niño develops on top of already record global temperatures, leading climate scientists and policy experts warned today that media coverage attributing extreme weather primarily to El Niño is missing the real story, and that the mounting cost of climate disasters is falling hardest on the people least responsible for causing them.
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.
