Powering Climate Solutions

about stamp out poverty

We are a strategic campaigning organisation dedicated to ending the fossil fuel era, accelerating the transition to renewables and providing support to communities on the frontline of the climate emergency.

For over 20 years, Stamp Out Poverty has united civil society, policy leaders, and grassroots movements around bold ideas that shift what’s politically possible – from delivering new climate finance to holding polluters accountable. We develop high‑impact campaigns, shape global policy debates, and drive solutions that address both climate breakdown and economic injustice.

OUR work

Our work streams help to accelerate the phase out of fossil fuels and scale up affordable renewable energy for the 99%

Make Polluters Pay

A major international and UK coalition to make oil, gas and coal giants pay for climate devastation at home and abroad.

Founded by Stamp Out Poverty, this fast-growing coalition now mobilises NGOs, politicians, activists and thought-leaders around the world.

Fossil Fuel Treaty

Stamp Out Poverty is a UK partner of this global initiative to end the fossil fuel era by ceasing further production of oil, coal and gas.

Our work has secured support from UK trade unions, mayors, alongside partnerships with organisations including C40 Cities.

Supercharging the energy transition

Our groundbreaking work reveals the key drivers of high renewable energy costs in poorer countries, offering solutions to lower the price of climate finance in the Global South.

Solidarity Levies

Our work on Solidarity Levies focuses on tapping public revenue streams from untaxed, or under-taxed, sectors such as finance, shipping, aviation and fossil fuels.

We work closely with the Global Solidarity Levies Task Force led by France, Kenya and Barbados which has opened up political space for the implementation of popular proposals. These range from the taxing of private jets to the excessive profits of the big banks and fossil fuel giants to boost government revenues to pay for climate action.

OUR IMPACT

From winning new taxes, to unlocking global funds, to building movements that shift what’s politically possible – we turn ideas into powerful solutions.

After the financial crisis, we co-founded the Robin Hood Tax campaign. By building public support, political momentum and technical credibility, we mainstreamed a once-radical idea – with Financial Transactions Taxes (FTTs) introduced in many countries including France, Italy and Spain.
As the climate emergency deepened, we developed the Climate Damages Tax – a practical proposal to make polluters pay. Today, alongside FTTs, it is being considered by the Global Solidarity Levies Task Force, led by France, Kenya and Barbados, as a powerful way to raise new revenue for climate action.
When climate impacts began wiping billions off Global South economies overnight, we worked with allies to win something once deemed impossible: a UN Loss and Damage Fund. We helped design the blueprint that proved decisive in securing the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage at COP27. Today, we are a founding partner of the Fill the Fund campaign to ensure finance at scale is mobilised to meet the needs of communities impacted by catastrophic climate damage.
Combatting the false claim that we “can’t afford” climate action, we are challenging the narrative. We founded the Make Polluters Pay Coalition — first in the UK, then globally — to hold oil, gas and coal companies accountable for the damage they have caused. The coalition now brings together major climate and development NGOs, grassroots movements worldwide, and tens of thousands of supporters.
As UN climate talks repeatedly fail to deliver an end to fossil fuel expansion, we are leading advocates of the Fossil Fuel Treaty (FFT) Initiative. Modelled on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Landmine Treaties, the FFT initiative is building a coalition of countries that have committed to end fossil fuel production and manage an energy transition that leaves no one behind. Our work has been central to securing support from UK trade unions, mayors, alongside strategic partnerships such as with C40 Cities.