‘Polluters must pay’: UN chief calls for windfall tax on fossil fuel companies
António Guterres said money raised should be diverted to vulnerable nations suffering losses caused by climate crisis
Countries should impose windfall taxes on fossil fuel companies and divert the money to vulnerable nations suffering worsening losses from the climate crisis, the United Nations secretary general has urged.
António Guterres said that “polluters must pay” for the escalating damage caused by heatwaves, floods, drought and other climate impacts, and demanded that it was “high time to put fossil fuel producers, investors and enablers on notice”.
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