History-making profits. World-ending emissions.

“With climate change leading to more frequent and intense heat, summers are different than they were before and so we should expect and be prepared for the hot weather that is coming.”

“One way or another there needs to be government intervention that somehow results in protecting the poorest. That probably may then mean that governments need to tax people in this room [energy companies] to pay for it.”

“I am of a firm view that the world will need oil and gas for a long time to come. As such, cutting oil and gas production is not healthy.”

“The G20 emits 80 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions. But the poorest and most vulnerable – those who contributed least to this crisis – are bearing its most brutal impacts. Meanwhile, the fossil fuel industry is feasting on hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies and windfall profits while household budgets shrink and our planet burns.”

“It is about time that these companies are made to pay a global COP carbon tax on these profits as a source of funding for loss and damage. While they are profiting, the planet is burning.”