Polluters

World Court Says Polluter States Must Compensate Victims For Harms

July 30, 2025 Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. Educate! Accountability, Environment, Polluters, United Nations, World Court

A new ruling from the World Court provides climate activists new tools for demanding accountability. On July 23, in a stunning 140 page advisory opinion, the International Court of Justice (ICJ, or World Court) held for the first time that there is a human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, and countries have a legal obligation to protect the climate from greenhouse gas emissions. The ICJ found that climate change poses “an existential problem of planetary proportions that imperils all forms of life and the very health of our planet.”

36 Companies Drove Half The World’s Climate-Altering Emissions In 2023

March 9, 2025 Sharon Kelly, DeSmog. Educate! Carbon emissions, climate crisis, Corporations, Fossil Fuels, Polluters

Half of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions in 2023 came from just three dozen companies, according to a new report released today by the Carbon Majors project, with the list dominated by coal, cement, and oil producers. Saudi Arabia’s Saudi Aramco, the year’s worst offender, drove 4.4 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide pollution alone in 2023, the report found. Five publicly-traded oil companies — ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, TotalEnergies, and BP — combined to produce an additional 4.9 percent of the year’s global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, the report adds.

Major Polluters Not Invited To Speak At UN Climate Ambition Summit

September 21, 2023 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Educate! China, climate crisis, Polluters, United Nations (UN), United States

The United Nations Climate Ambition Summit in New York today brings together what UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the “first movers and doers” of the climate crisis with the goal of speeding up action on climate change by governments, local authorities, business and finance leaders and civil society ahead of November’s COP28 Climate Change Conference. The Climate Ambition Summit’s list of 34 speakers conspicuously left out two of the world’s biggest polluters: the U.S. and China. The summit will be organized with three interrelated acceleration tracks in mind: ambition, credibility and implementation, a press release from the UN said.

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