Countries who’ve done the least to cause the climate crisis are affected most by its impacts.

Sea levels rising, sustained heatwaves, increasingly severe bushfires, drought, hurricanes, and species extinction.

As global warming worsens, the negative impacts of climate damages will increase in frequency and severity. Developing countries are more vulnerable to the worst impacts of climate change and are less likely to have the resources to adequately respond or adapt. Yet they have contributed the least to the climate crisis.

It’s time for polluters to pay

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Taxing the 2022 profits of the five oil majors by % would generate $ 4,000,000,000for the Loss and Damage Fund.

Fossil fuel companies have caused and exacerbated the climate crisis. Taxing their enormous profits is the obvious solution to financing climate finance

Climate finance seeks to support mitigation and adaptation actions that will address climate change, providing support for countries suffering from the worst impacts of the climate crisis.
When global leaders and delegations convene throughout the year at events including the Bonn Climate Conference, the G7 Summit in Puglia, Italy, and COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, they must hold Big Oil accountable in climate finance discussions.

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Annual emissions of the five oil majors compared to countries1, 2

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Figures shown in million tonnes CO2e in 2022

Big 5 Oil Majors 2247.6
Brazil 1310.5
Indonesia 1240.8
Japan 1182.8
Iran 952.0
Mexico 819.9
Saudi Arabia 810.5
Germany 784.0
Canada 756.8
International Shipping 750.7

According to the UN, by 2030 climate related
loss and damage costs per year could reach

$300billion3
Sources
  1. Company emissions: Scopes 1 & 2 – operational control, Scope 3 – category 11, upstream production only, 2021 (Source: company reporting)

  2. 2022 Domestic GHG emissions only (Source: EDGAR Community GHG Database)

  3. Based on UN IHLEG estimated annual costs of climate change by 2030.