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Public demands oil giants pay for climate damage
Billions in record profits should pay for climate reparations, Brits say in new poll
Extinction Rebellion demonstrators outside the Shell Building in London, on the last day of the environmental action group's four days of action that they have called "The Big One". Picture date: Monday April 24, 2023.
MOST Brits want polluting oil and gas giants to be forced to use their record-breaking profits to pay for the climate damage they are causing, a new poll published today reveals.
Some 63 per cent want Tory ministers to tax major energy firms and transfer wealth to poorer nations in the global South already suffering the worst impacts of global warming, according to the Christian Aid survey.
A “loss and damage fund” was agreed at the landmark Cop27 climate summit last year, but details on which countries will pay into it and which will receive the vital support are yet to be agreed.
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