Last year was both the hottest year on record and the most lucrative ever year for fossil fuel company shareholders.
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While these companies make record profits, their business is driving deadly extreme weather and damage to people’s homelands and livelihoods.
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The hundreds of billions oil and gas companies rake in have been taken from the pockets of individuals and families, pushing basic necessities out of reach for many - either directly through skyrocketing energy bills that have been exacerbating the cost of living, or indirectly with industry tax breaks and subsidies.
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Individuals, families and small businesses should not have to bear rising energy costs, or go without basic needs, while fossil fuel companies make record profits.
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The fossil fuel industry has been aware of the climate impacts of their business for decades. They have deliberately ignored the truth and discredited the science, so they could continue their dirty business and make enormous profits.
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