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Jude Law says fossil fuel companies need to answer for their actions

Celebrities including Sir Mark Rylance and Aisling Bea are backing the Global Witness Payback Time campaign.

They come in the wake of devastating weather extremes, and warnings that 2024 is on track to be another record hot year and the world is heading for a “catastrophic” 3.1C of warming on current policies. Also among the backers of the Global Witness campaign are Ireland’s former president Mary Robinson, English musicians Brian Eno and Jon Hopkins, Ahsoka actress Rosario Dawson, Harry Potter star Bonnie Wright as well as directors Adam McKay, known for The Big Short, and Joshua Oppenheimer, who made The Act Of Killing. Azerbaijan, which has been criticised by human rights campaigners for cracking down on environmental activists in the country as it hosts Cop29, is a major oil and gas producer.

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