{"id":74307,"date":"2025-04-29T14:14:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=74307"},"modified":"2025-06-05T17:47:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:47:52","slug":"from-manila-to-la-how-greenpeace-is-turning-make-polluters-pay-into-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/74307\/from-manila-to-la-how-greenpeace-is-turning-make-polluters-pay-into-law\/","title":{"rendered":"From Manila to LA: How Greenpeace is turning Make Polluters Pay into law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Floods \u00a9 Jilson Tiu & David McNew \/ Greenpeace<\/div>” class=”wp-image-74308″\/>
Floods in Manila and wildfires in California
\u00a9 Jilson Tiu & David McNew \/ Greenpeace<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Whether you live in Manila or in Los Angeles, you\u2019re already feeling the impacts of the climate crisis. Last year\u2019s series of six typhoons hitting the Philippines within just 30 days was unprecedented. The flames that ravaged through LA\u2019s metropolitan area were equally historic. Scientific studies<\/a> confirm<\/a> Big Oil\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions made both catastrophes significantly more likely to occur. <\/p>\n\n

Making dirty energy companies pay for climate disasters they have caused<\/a> is not only fair – it\u2019s also practical. Consider their massive profits. In 2024, five oil and gas corporations alone reported over US$100 billion in total profit. <\/p>\n\n

That is why making climate polluters pay is the most popular policy option in eight countries, according to a study<\/a> commissioned last year by Greenpeace International. <\/p>\n\n

On both sides of the Pacific Ocean, Greenpeace organisations are rallying governments to tax oil and gas corporations so communities may rebuild from climate disasters and invest in solutions. <\/p>\n\n

Philippines: The CLIMA Bill for climate justice<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n

Greenpeace Philippines is at the forefront of campaigning for the Climate Accountability (CLIMA) Bill to hold polluters accountable for climate damages.<\/p>\n\n

The bill, which Greenpeace Philippines helped draft, mandates climate-related financial disclosures and emissions reduction roadmaps from companies. In addition to a domestic legal framework for loss and damage, mandating due diligence and prevention of human rights harms, particularly in the context of climate change.<\/p>\n

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