🔥 Europe's record heatwave isn't natural — it's fossil-fueled. New World Weather Attribution study shows: these temperatures were "virtually impossible" 50 yrs ago. Nearly half of 800+ cities will hit extreme heat stress. Polluters profit. We suffer. Make them pay. 🔗👇 350.org/the-great-po...

It is scorching hot in the UK right now. 🥵 The ultimate irony? We are enduring extreme, climate-fueled heatwaves while fossil fuel giants rake in a staggering $12 trillion a year in public subsidies—nearly 100 times more than global climate finance.

✍🏼 Sign the petition here! act.350.org/sign/tax-pol... They're cashing in on war. The biggest contributors to the climate crisis stand to profit from destruction, while those who did the least suffer more and more. Let’s make them pay. Add your name, and help build momentum.

Today, the UN adopted a resolution which affirms the legal obligations of nations to limit emissions and prevent further climate harm!

As Americans struggle to afford necessities, Trump brought an entourage of CEOs to Beijing. While so many lives have been lost because of a senseless war in Iran, Xi showed off his military. They're for profits. We're for people.

Last week, İkizköy village in Milas, Türkiye achieved a historic legal milestone. The Council of State issued a stay of execution against the "urgent expropriation" of land around the Akbelen Forest. This means that the land won't be used for expanding coal mines, as YK Enerji had intended.

On May 18, the G7 finance ministers meet. Windfall taxes and ending FF subsidies aren't on the agenda... ...but French finance minister Roland Lescure is very online. to.350.org/dd5oN ⬅️ Visit here to copy a comment, or write your own. Then leave it on his recent posts: @rolandlescure.bsky.social

Shell's Q1 profits exceeded expectations - $6.9 billion, compared to the $3.2 bn they took in last quarter. But what's great for shareholders means higher bills for the rest of us - they profit, we pay. 350's executive director, Anna Jellema, calls for a windfall tax:

Climate campaigners attack Shell over ‘windfall’ profits from Iran war

Firm benefits from conflict to rake in $6.9bn as higher energy prices turbocharge profits

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While we all pay, those creating the crisis are cashing in on the chaos.Join the movement to put people over profits and make polluters pay.https://act.350.org/sign/we-pay-they-profit

350's executive director, Anne Jellema, on the real cost of fossil fuels: from lives lost, to necessities made unaffordable. "The true price of fossil fuels is no longer hidden. And it is being paid, every day, by ordinary people around the world. It’s time for the great power shift."

What fossil fuels really cost us in a world at war

Governments are under pressure to respond to rising fuel and food costs and deepening energy poverty. It's time for a power shift

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Oil companies doubled their quarterly profits. Called it "exceptional." Cost by end of 2026: US$600 billion to US$1 trillion. 350.org has launched The Great Power Shift — a global campaign to end fossil fuel dependence and ensure affordable renewable energy for all. 350.org/the-great-po...

“Families are being pushed to the brink by spiraling energy bills, while fossil fuel companies turn a war into a windfall,” wrote Clémence Dubois, global campaigns director at 350.org. "This is not just unjust, it’s unacceptable.”

BP's profit more than doubles as US gas prices hit the highest point since the start of war in Iran

BP’s profit more than doubled in the first quarter as the war in Iran drove energy prices sharply higher.

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Island nations are currently caught in 3 intersecting emergencies: a fuel crisis driven by geopolitical conflict, a climate crisis driven by fossil fuels, & a deepening affordability crisis. Fenton Lutunatabua of 350.org explains the power shift required to keep the lights on & the tides at bay.

High Oil Prices Are Devastating Island States – and Moving the Needle on Climate

For many small island states, the abstract concept of a “polycrisis” has become a dangerously tangible threat.

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🇨🇴 April 27, Santa Marta: Global March to End Fossil Fuels / Marcha Global Para el Fin de los Combustible Fósiles. Yesterday, against the backdrop of the Santa Marta Conference, people marched together and reiterated their demands for a just future.

1/ 🚨 Oil profits more than double, from war. BP is reporting soaring profits driven by global crisis. While millions face rising bills. While climate chaos accelerates. @fossiltreaty.bsky.social @350.org @makethempay.bsky.social @polluterspay.bsky.social

➡️ 350's analysis shows that if the war continues, the economic hit to households, businesses and governments could surge above $1tn in 2026. Read the full article: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Middle East crisis could cost world $1tn while oil firms make ‘obscene’ profit, analysis finds

Climate group calls for urgent windfall tax on excess fossil fuel profits, as delegates tell Colombia conference their nations are suffering

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🇨🇴 SANTA MARTA CONFERENCE: The Weaving Alternatives and Community Solutions Fair is all about amplifying real, community-led solutions. Communities aren't waiting for governments to lead the just energy transition: they're already building it themselves.

The fossil fuel industry costs every person on Earth $1,400 a year — and pays almost nothing back. 350.org's new #OutOfPocket report breaks it down. Santa Marta is the first conference ever called to end fossil fuels, and this report is the receipt. Read the full report: 350.org/out-of-pocke...

We’ve joined 130+ organizations in an open letter with 4 clear demands: end the war, tax profiteers, cancel debt and secure food and energy for all. They profit, we pay. It’s time to change that. 350.org/they-profit-...

They profit, we pay. Fix it now.

Ceasefires are not the answer - the war must end. We are paying the price for a crisis we didn't cause. This must change.

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In just weeks, world leaders head to Santa Marta, Colombia for the FIRST-EVER international conference on phasing out fossil fuels.Tell EU Climate Commissioner Hoekstra: show up with real plans to end coal, oil, and gas not just speeches. 350.org/tell-eu-foss...

Tell Commissioner Hoekstra: Turn climate vision into action.

Tell EU Commissioner Hoekstra to turn vision into action. Demand a fast, fair, and funded transition away from coal, oil, and gas at the Colombia summit.

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Every component of your bill depends on policy choices made by government. Working people shouldn’t be paying the price while oil majors treat the war in the Middle East like a winning lottery ticket.

💥 Today we’re joining forces with 50+ orgs who’ve signed our open letter You can tell the government to stop July bill hikes and give us our fair share of cheap, clean energy #MakeGreenFair 🖊️ Sign the petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ma...

Working people shouldn’t be paying the price while corporations treat the Iran war like a winning lottery ticket. Their recent excess profits came from price surges that you paid for. We're calling for a windfall tax - read more below:

Windfall Tax calls as Reform pumps out nonsense on oil prices

A Windfall Tax can be used as an immediate buffer to protect families from price surges as well as fund long-term renewable energy solutions.

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"Semieniuk’s team calculated what would have happened if the U.S. government redistributed the portion of the fossil fuel industry’s 2022 profits that exceeded its 2021 returns. They found that the move would send $1,715 to every American household."

Who Could Profit From an Energy Crisis?

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As the conflict in the Persian Gulf continues, fossil fuel companies are preparing for record-breaking profits while billions of people face soaring energy bills and "energy poverty."We’re tired of a world where our energy system fuels war and destroys our climate. oilchange.org/blogs/trumps...

Trump’s War on Iran: As People Are Killed, Big Oil’s Windfall Will Deepen Our Energy Affordability Crisis - Oil Change International

Trump’s illegal war with Iran has already taken a devastating human toll. It could also mean higher energy bills worldwide, while fossil fuel companies, traders, and investors get rich.

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Bombs are falling and Oil prices are rising everywhere else. This is what a fossil fuel economy does , it turns war into inflation and civilians pay twice: with their lives and with their bills.We mourn the victims. We demand peace. Take Action, Sign the Petition. act.350.org/sign/no-bloo...

US President Donald Trump called it a "Golden Age" in last night's State of the Union. For the 21 million American families behind on their energy bills, it feels more like the dark ages. Read our full statement 350.org/press-releas...

Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ rhetoric can’t cover up rising energy costs

Responding to the United States President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address, 350.org says that Trump’s “Golden Age” rhetoric...

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🚨 Breaking: TotalEnergies faces a major climate trial at the Paris Court of Justice. The case will determine whether Total can be legally forced to cut its GHG emissions & its #fossilfuel expansion Communities are already feeling the impacts of its controversial #EACOP project. Our press release ⬇️

Draft agenda of COP31: 14 priorities, 50 sub-priorities, and not one explicit reference to fossil fuels, the source of roughly three-quarters of global warming. After 80+ countries backed a roadmap to transition from fossil fuels, this looks look more like an omission than an oversight.

National security plans must adapt to avoid ‘new world disorder’, says UN climate chief

Simon Stiell tells audience in Cop31 host nation Turkey that climate extremes are fuelling famine, displacement and war

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The repeal of the US EPA's endangerment finding may be giving Big Oil a license to pollute more - but will it will also strengthen the people's demands to make climate polluters pay. Read our full statement here:

350.org on Trump’s latest rollback of US climate regulation

The White House announced that the US Environmental and Protection Agency (EPA) will repeal on Thursday the “endangerment finding,” a...

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