🎬 Also featured at the event: The “Carbon Inequality” video, with 30 voices calling for climate justice.
👉 www.pollutingelite.earth
#MakePollutersPay #ClimateJustice #FairClimateFinance

📊 @greenpeace.org – @oxfaminternational.bsky.social survey across 11 countries, covering more than half of the world's population, shows 8 in 10 people want oil & gas giants taxed to pay for climate loss & damage.
🔗 www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

💰 @oxfaminternational.bsky.social research: fossil fuel giants are making record profits while cutting renewable investments:
BP −73%
Shell −37%
Equinor −41%
A polluter profits tax on 590 firms could raise $400 billion in year 1.
🔗 www.oxfam.org/en/blogs/ric...

Blair Horner @nypirg.bsky.social
@abbymaxman.bsky.social (@oxfamamerica.bsky.social).

Momentum is building with NY’s fossil Superfund law and growing international support for permanent polluter profit taxes.

Speakers:
Mari Kiviniemi (ex-PM Finland)
Yussuf Hussein (Kenya Climate Envoy Office)
Arthur Bauer (French Mission to the UN)
@fredroder.bsky.social (@globalsolidaritylevies.org)
Diego Casaes (Climate Emergency Collaboration Group)
Marinel Ubaldo (Climate Activist) ...

At #ClimateWeekNYC I helped organize & moderate a panel on “Taxation for Fair Climate Financing” co-hosted by @oxfaminternational.bsky.social, @clubdemadrid.bsky.social & @globalsolidaritylevies.org profiling this global call.
🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFmB...

... Peru, Poland, Republic of Korea, Romania, Seychelles, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden and Tunisia.
plus former heads of @un.org, @ilo.org & OECD.
They are from left, centre & right showing how non-controversial this should be.

🔗 Full letter: clubmadrid.org/taxing-pollu...
Signatories include ex-leaders from: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Finland, Greece, Guinea, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Mauritius, Mexico, Mozambique, Norway, Panama, Peru ...

A fair energy future is not just a policy goal. It’s a moral obligation and a historical debt.​

👉 Read the report for more policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/un... ​

(Note that we are at capacity for physical attendance). I look forward to a discussion on how permanent profit taxes on fossil fuel companies can be a key solution to ending inequality, raising resources for climate action and to advance the switch to renewables.