{"id":20062,"date":"2025-12-22T06:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/?p=20062"},"modified":"2025-12-22T04:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:39:48","slug":"making-polluters-pay-a-climate-justice-agenda-for-south-asias-fossil-fuel-driven-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/publication\/20062\/making-polluters-pay-a-climate-justice-agenda-for-south-asias-fossil-fuel-driven-climate-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Polluters Pay: A Climate Justice Agenda for South Asia\u2019s Fossil Fuel-Driven Climate Crisis\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southasia-stateless\/2025\/12\/db8e3748-img_0952-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southasia-stateless\/2025\/12\/db8e3748-img_0952-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southasia-stateless\/2025\/12\/db8e3748-img_0952-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southasia-stateless\/2025\/12\/db8e3748-img_0952-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southasia-stateless\/2025\/12\/db8e3748-img_0952-453x340.jpg 453w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southasia-stateless\/2025\/12\/db8e3748-img_0952.jpg 1074w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p><em>South Asia is facing a fossil fuel-driven climate crisis, with heatwaves, floods, and droughts already devastating communities and economies. While people pay the price, major polluters continue to profit. This issue brief advocates for holding polluters accountable through targeted taxation, legal liability, and fiscal and policy reforms to restore climate justice in the region.<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southasia-stateless\/2025\/12\/583487cc-digital-issue-brief-nov2025-south-asias-fossil-fuel-driven-climate-crisis-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Asia is facing a fossil fuel-driven climate crisis, with heatwaves, floods, and droughts already devastating communities and economies. While people pay the price, major polluters continue to profit. This&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":20063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"p4-page-type":[15],"class_list":["post-20062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","p4-page-type-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20065,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20062\/revisions\/20065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20062"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=20062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}