Polluters must pay: how COP29 can help: With legislation to tax polluters and make them pay for past pollution, the climate change conference can advance measures that hold polluters responsible.

The author points that the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) can advance legislation to make corporations and countries pay for past pollution. Topics discussed include the polluter pays principle which calls for polluters to bear the costs of managing its pollution, the push for COP29 to show more political will to address global warming, and recommendations for COP29 to achieve emissions targets including ending fossil fuel subsidies and pushing legal accountability for climate damage.