A GLOBAL
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MAKE POLLUTERS PAY INTERNATIONAL | A GLOBAL COALITION
Big polluters profit, the world pays.
They Caused It. They Knew. They Should Pay.
For decades, the world's biggest oil, gas and coal companies have driven the climate crisis, hidden what they knew, and made billions while communities paid the price.
Make Polluters Pay International is the global coalition building the movement to hold them accountable, supporting communities hit hardest by climate change, strengthening resilience and accelerating the transition to clean energy.
A global movement with one shared demand
Around the world, people are demanding that the fossil fuel industry pays for the damage it has caused and contributes fairly to funding climate loss and damage, resilient communities and a just transition.
Campaigns are winning Climate Superfund laws. Courts are holding governments and corporations to account. Countries are advancing new taxes on pollution and fossil fuel profits. Public support is growing.
These aren't isolated victories. They're the beginnings of a global movement.
Make Polluters Pay International exists to help that movement grow stronger, faster and further.
We connect campaigns so victories travel faster.
No country can take on the fossil fuel industry alone.
But together, campaigns can become something much bigger than the sum of their parts.
Make Polluters Pay International
Helps build the global movement by connecting people, ideas and campaigns across continents.
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BUILD A SHARED PUBLIC NARRATIVE
Making polluters pay is becoming one of the defining climate justice demands of our time. We help build a compelling, consistent public story that reaches far beyond the climate movement.
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SPREAD WHAT WORKS
When campaigns win, those victories shouldn't stay in one place. We help successful policy ideas, legal approaches and campaign strategies travel between countries - so others can adapt, strengthen and build on them.
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GROW THE MOVEMENT
We bring together campaigners, researchers, lawyers, grassroots organisations, political leaders, artists and communicators to coordinate action, strengthen partnerships and make the movement's growing momentum visible - helping turn public support into political change.
By helping campaigns learn from one another and act together, we can accelerate the political and financial tipping points needed to make polluters pay at scale.
Momentum is building
The idea that polluters should pay is moving rapidly from the margins into the mainstream.
Governments are acting
From New York and Vermont passing landmark laws requiring fossil fuel companies to help cover climate damage, to the UK government closing a major tax loophole for North Sea oil and gas after sustained campaign pressure, governments are beginning to make polluters contribute more.
Courts are strengthening accountability
The International Court of Justice has confirmed that states have obligations to prevent significant climate harm - raising the bar for climate accountability around the world.
The UN is raising the pressure
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has repeatedly called for fossil fuel companies to pay for the damage they have caused, helping move polluter pays from a campaign demand to a mainstream international principle.
THE WORLD AGREES
8 in 10 people want polluters to pay up for climate action.
Across the world, people are signing petitions, taking to the streets, contacting elected representatives, launching legal action and winning new laws to make polluters pay.
Every new campaign. Every new law. Every new victory builds the momentum needed to make polluters pay everywhere.
A GLOBAL COALITION
Together we're building the movement to make polluters pay.
We bring together climate organisations, justice movements, faith groups, researchers, legal experts and grassroots campaigns across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and the Pacific.
Together we're helping successful ideas spread faster than the fossil fuel industry's influence.
Join the movement
Whether you're an individual, campaign group, researcher, policymaker, journalist or artist, there's a place for you in this growing global movement.Together we can ensure the companies most responsible for the climate crisis finally pay their fair share.
LATEST CAMPAIGN NEWS.
Big Oil should pay for Nepal disaster
The new UN Loss and Damage Fund is under pressure to provide emergency support for Nepal, but holds only a fraction of the funding promised by governments.
It’s time the big oil and gas companies responsible for climate breakdown were made to pay up.
UN Secretary-General calls for polluters to pay!
Across two speeches at London Climate Action Week, António Guterres urged governments to tax fossil fuel windfall profits: “These are windfall gains born of pain… I urge governments to tax them.”
“The companies driving climate chaos cannot continue profiting from the destruction while vulnerable countries struggle. Polluters must pay.”
European finance ministers call for windfall taxes!
Oil and gas companies made bumper profits of $93 billion in just three months as the war on Iran sent energy prices soaring. The profits made headlines around the world.
Poland has now joined Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Austria in calling for an EU-wide tax on oil companies’ exceptional profits — another sign of growing political momentum behind the call to Make Polluters Pay.