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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
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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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New study shows typhoon season made worse by climate change: Greenpeace Philippines responds
A study by World Weather Attribution found that climate change made November’s typhoon series in the Philippines nearly twice as likely and increased the likelihood of at least…
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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.