A GLOBAL
COALITION
LEARN
THEY CAUSED IT
The climate crisis didn't happen by accident.
A relatively small number of the world's biggest oil, gas and coal companies are responsible for a huge share of the emissions driving climate breakdown. For decades they have extracted, marketed and profited from fossil fuels while passing the costs onto everyone else
$2.8 billion
Profit. Every day.
For 50 years.
They knew. They lobbied. They profited.
The oil and gas industry is estimated to have made around $2.8 billion in profit every day over the last half century - more than $52 trillion in total. While communities faced rising climate impacts, the companies driving the crisis accumulated extraordinary wealth.
They knew.
The fossil fuel industry didn't just contribute to the climate crisis - it understood the risks decades ago.
Internal research by companies such as Exxon accurately predicted that burning fossil fuels would heat the planet. Yet instead of changing course, many companies continued expanding production while spending millions lobbying governments, funding misinformation and delaying climate action.
This wasn't simply a failure to act.
It was a choice to protect profits over people.
We pay.
Communities everywhere are paying the price.
Every fraction of a degree of warming brings more destruction - floods, wildfires, droughts, rising seas and extreme heat.
In international climate negotiations, these escalating impacts are known as loss and damage - the homes, livelihoods, ecosystems and lives being lost to a crisis that communities did little to create.
Families lose homes. Farmers lose harvests. Insurance becomes unaffordable.
Food and energy prices rise. The people who did least to cause the crisis are often those suffering its worst impacts.
In international climate negotiations, these escalating impacts are known as loss and damage - the homes, livelihoods, ecosystems and lives being lost to a crisis that communities did little to create.
$120 Billion
ECONOMIC LOSSES
From the ten costliest climate disasters in 2025.
250 Million
PEOPLE DISPLACED
By climate disasters over the last decade.
$200 Billion +
ESTIMATED LOSSES
Estimated annual losses from heatwaves, floods, storms, wildfires and drought.
From Pakistan to Portugal, from Nigeria to New York and Nepal, communities are paying the price for a crisis they did not create.
That's why polluters should pay.
THEY SHOULD PAY.
Making polluters pay isn't simply about accountability. It's about ensuring the companies that caused the climate crisis contribute to the costs instead of leaving families, communities and governments to shoulder them alone.
The money raised can help communities recover from climate loss and damage, strengthen resilience to future climate impacts and accelerate a just transition away from fossil fuels.
Around the world, campaigners are already turning this principle into real laws, legal action and political change.
Governments
Are making fossil fuel companies contribute more towards climate costs.
Courts
Are strengthening climate accountability.
The UN
The UN Secretary-General has repeatedly called for polluters to pay.
Public support
Continues to grow.
New campaigns are launching across the world.