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Why first responders are calling out rich polluters
Protection, courage, kindness, fairness - these are words I think of when I imagine firefighters and emergency relief workers. These accounts from those of the frontlines make clear that we need polluters to pay.
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Climate crisis tripled death toll of Europe’s latest heatwave: Greenpeace calls for polluters to pay
Responding to a rapid study by scientists at Imperial College London and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine that found that the number of heat-related deaths across 12 European cities tripled due to the climate crisis
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8 in 10 people support taxing oil and gas corporations to pay for climate damages, global survey finds
The findings reveal broad public support for core demands of the Polluters Pay Pact, as climate impacts worsen worldwide and global inequality grows.
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2025 is the year to make polluters pay
As governments and communities around the world face growing costs from devastating climate impacts, there’s a looming elephant in the room: The billionaire-polluter class has never had it so good.
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G7 countries overshoot own climate targets; spend record sums on fossil fuel subsidies
The G7 group of industrialised nations has overshot self-imposed targets to reduce carbon emissions by 2025, instead subsidising climate-damaging fossil fuels by record amounts
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‘Hell of a year’: Greenpeace comments on hottest year on record, the first to exceed 1.5°C
Reacting to the 2024 Global Climate highlights report by the WMO, Copernicus, Met Office, NASA, and other global climate monitoring organizations showing new climate extremes reached in 2024
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Who should pay for climate loss and damage? Tax Big Oil for fuelling the climate crisis
There is a well established consensus at COP29 that the climate crisis is exacerbating the hardships of vulnerable communities around the world. The question now is: who's going to pay for the staggering costs?
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Personal memories from climate disasters
The climate crisis knows no boundaries, and has left its mark on every continent of our planet. Greenpeace representatives at COP29 share more.
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Families on the frontlines: the human impact of climate crisis
Extreme weather is hitting with unprecedented force, uprooting lives and changing landscapes forever. Families and communities across the world are facing unimaginable devastation.
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Study confirms Hurricane Helene fueled by Big Oil’s emissions: Greenpeace calls for climate polluters to pay
A report by World Weather Attribution links the historic storm Helene that killed at least 227 people across six states to climate change.