$2.8 BILLION:
Fossil fuel industry profits made every single day for 50 years.
POLLUTERS CAUSED THIS
For decades, oil, gas, and coal companies have made billions while knowingly driving the climate crisis. Since the 1950s, the oil industry has known the devastating consequences that their business would exact on the world. Companies like Exxon predicted the rise in global temperatures their activities would cause.
For decades, oil, gas, and coal companies have made billions while knowingly driving the climate crisis. Since the 1950s, the oil industry has known the devastating consequences that their business would exact on the world. Companies like Exxon predicted the rise in global temperatures their activities would cause.
Equipped with this knowledge, big polluting industries have spent billions to rig the rules in their favour. The 7 biggest polluters spent €64 million in a 4-year period lobbying the European Union. The fossil fuel lobby spent $150 million in 2024 alone to lobby the US federal government. And it worked! Their efforts to downplay and weaken climate laws have been successful. Those same companies are still expanding oil and gas production while communities worldwide face the fallout.
Meanwhile, year-on-year temperatures rises are breaking records. In 2025, the top-10 costliest climate disasters included wildfires, cyclones, extreme rainfall and devastating floods, and droughts spanning four continents. Together, they resulted in economic losses of $120 billion. This figure however masks the true devastation to communities, with nearly 250 million people being displaced over the last ten years.
The oil, coal and gas industry has made $2.8billion per day in profits for the last 50 years, fuelling a cost of living crisis for all of us – driving up the price of food, insurance premiums and energy. From Pakistan to Portugal, from Nigeria to New York, people are paying the price. It’s time to turn the tables – polluters must pay.
As the price of renewable energy plummets, the fossil fuel industry can’t compete. It’s using its power to interfere in political debate to undermine climate action and delay the transition, including by backing narratives and movements that exploit division and economic anxiety.
OUR COMMUNITIES PAY THE PRICE
Every fraction of a degree of warming means more destruction, with disaster intensifying year on year.
- Families losing homes to floods from Bangladesh to Brazil.
- Farmers facing drought across East Africa, the USA and Southern Europe.
- Entire island nations and cities fighting to survive rising seas.
- Buildings across whole communities are becoming uninsurable
- The costs are staggering — Communities worldwide now lose over $200 billion a year to heatwaves, wildfires, toxic air, floods, storms, rising seas, and droughts. We are all being hit by escalating energy bills, food prices, and insurance premiums. We’re paying the price. It’s time to make polluters pay!
OUR MOVEMENT IS GETTING ORGANISED
Making polluters pay for the mess they’ve paid is possible. Successes in New York and Vermont in passing Climate Superfunds have spurred on movements elsewhere. Communities from the Philippines are takingShell UK to court over climate damages with Typhoon Odette.
Pacific Island nations have taken a climate case to the International Court of Justice which ruled that states must prevent activities causing significant climate harm
Governments including France, Kenya and Barbados are looking to introduce higher pollution taxes through the Global Solidarity Levies Taskforce
The Club of Madrid group of former world leaders have called for polluters to pay
Governments are negotiating a new UN Tax Convention including taxing polluters
Grassroots movements worldwide are mobilising – taking to the streets and across social media to demand that polluters pay up!
This has huge support! Eight in ten people across the world agree it’s time the oil, gas and coal companies paid up for climate damage.
From affected communities and first responders to legal experts, political leaders, artists, and campaigners across every continent, we’re building pressure to make polluters pay.
