Fuel firms should pay for climate harm, UN leaders told

Rich energy companies should be forced to fork over some windfall profits to aid victims of climate change and offset rising fuel and food costs, the U.N. Secretary-General told world leaders Tuesday.

...Mohamed Adow, director of climate and energy think tank Power Shift Africa, said “putting right a wrong is what climate change action is all about.”

“Taking the profits of climate destruction to address the loss and damage they have wrought would be an excellent first step,” Adow said in an email.

Adow said the “drumbeat for action to address loss and damage is growing,”

“And the longer we see emissions rising,” he added, “the need for it will only intensify.”