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That afternoon, the climate crisis knocked on my door
Floods that we usually only see on our phone and television screens are now happening to us.
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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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We risk our lives facing Amazon wildfires. What will politicians risk to make the polluters behind them pay
A firefighter describes the horror of witnessing the Amazon being consumed by wildfires, and why he cannot turn his back on it.
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From Manila to LA: How Greenpeace is turning Make Polluters Pay into law
Whether you live in Manila or in Los Angeles, you’re already feeling the impacts of the climate crisis. Scientific studies confirm Big Oil’s greenhouse gas emissions makes catastrophes significantly more likely to occur.
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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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A multi-billion dollar question: What good can come from taxing oil and gas corporations for climate damages?
As storms, floods, fires, and droughts are hitting us more frequently and with greater intensity around the world, the costs of the climate crisis are going up significantly. Bold taxes or fines on oil and gas corporations would help to raise vital revenues.
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Lessons from the Los Angeles wildfires
Harrowing images from the recent California fires drive home the existence of climate change and underscore the need for global preparedness.
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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