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.
03
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.
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.
8 in 10 people want polluters to pay up for climate action.
THE WORLD AGREES
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.
Together we're building the movement to make polluters pay.
A GLOBAL COALITION
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Secretary-General declares "polluters must pay"
In his final COP address, the UN Secretary-General slammed the fossil fuel industry and their latest $95 billion quarterly profits, compared to the pittance received by the Loss and Damage fund.
He stated, "It's time for governments to tax these windfall profits and use them to help vulnerable countries recover. Polluters must pay."
"You're on the right side of history. Keep going."
In his final speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres repeated our campaign demand, stating "Those who polluted the most – and profited the most – must do far more to repair
the damage they caused. Polluters must pay."
He went on to say: "And to the leaders, cities, civil society and citizens working to hold them accountable: You are on the right side of history. Keep going."
