Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 28 October 2025
– In reaction to Hurricane
Melissa, a powerful Category 5 storm that could be the
worst storm in Jamaica’s history, and potentially
threatens to strike other countries in its path, Ian
Duff, Head of Greenpeace International’s Stop Drilling
Start Paying campaign said:
“It is shocking to
see Jamaica at risk of being turned into a quasi war zone in
no time by Hurricane Melissa. Millions will soon be
surveying the damage to their lives and loved ones, picking
up the pieces and no doubt asking: who is going to pay for
this?”
“At the same time as Hurricane Melissa is
about to devastate, oil and gas corporations are preparing
to publish their quarterly profits – profits that will add
to the almost US$800
billion that just five companies have made over the past
decade. The industry and their billionaire backers have
known for decades they were heating our climate, while
making massive profits from ordinary
bill-payers.”
“Big Oil should pay for the damages
this Hurricane inflicts. We know hurricanes are being
supercharged by fossil fuel-driven climate change – with a
warmer North Atlantic Ocean, increasing rainfall, and the
risk of coastal flooding. Costs from previous hurricanes
have reached hundreds of billions of USD. It’s time to
make polluters – not ordinary people – pay for
this.”
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Giving visibility to its demand
to make oil and gas corporations pay, Greenpeace
organisations carrying a Polluters’ Climate Bill around
the world: from the Climate
Week in New York, to the Africa
Energy Week in Cape Town, to the Fund
for Responding to Loss and Damage meeting in Pasay city,
and next month to the UN
Tax Convention negotiations in Nairobi and COP30 in
Belém.
