About Us
Our mission
To make the world’s biggest polluters pay for the damage they’ve caused — and ensure that the funds raised benefit those most affected by climate impacts. We believe that justice means accountability, and that accountability must cross borders. That’s why we’re coming together to:
- Make the oil, gas and coal industry and other rich polluters pay for climate damages and disaster, recovering major funding for a just transition and community resilience to future climate disasters.
- Curb the fossil fuel industry’s undue influence over politics, economy, and our future, and undermine its financial viability.
This work is about fairness and protection. People can see the impacts of climate change in their daily lives. They know the system is unjust — that they are paying more while polluters profit. We help turn that shared anger and sense of unfairness into collective action, political pressure, and durable solutions that are in the public interest.
About make polluters pay international
What’s our story?
Make Polluters Pay International is a growing global coalition holding oil, gas, and coal giants accountable for climate breakdown. Grounded in the polluter pays principle, we unite around a clear mission: unlocking the funding needed to accelerate climate action and counter powerful anti-climate forces shaping politics and public opinion worldwide.
Launched in 2025, the coalition channels public anger at corporate profiteering into coordinated action, bringing together climate and social justice movements, politicians, legal innovators, and frontline communities. We expose fossil fuel companies as key drivers of the cost-of-living crisis and build pressure for enforceable policies and lawsuits at state, national, and international levels.
The campaign began in Britain, led by Stamp Out Poverty, where a broad coalition is mobilising public support for the oil and gas industry to pay for climate damage, and working with members of Parliament to promote legislation to tax polluters fairly.
In the United States, Fossil Free Media has established a nationwide network that challenges the fossil fuel industry’s influence and mobilises public support for state level ‘Superfund’ laws, like those in Vermont and New York, to make oil and gas companies pay for climate damage.
In Australia, a new coalition is exposing the coal industry’s low tax contributions as communities bear the costs of successive floods and wildfires.
These national efforts are backed by global organisations including Greenpeace, Oxfam International, and 350.org. Together, they are the founding members of the Make Polluters Pay International Coalition, convened by Stamp Out Poverty.
We are a globally coordinated force combining strategic communications, policy innovation, and people power to drive a new era of fossil fuel accountability.
Our partners
Make Polluters Pay International brings together grassroots networks, international NGOs, scientists, and legal experts from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and the Pacific.
Together, we share research, coordinate campaigns, and strengthen the global call to make polluters pay.
