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

Two-time Oscar nominee Jude Law has criticised fossil substance companies, saying they “need to answer” for their biology actions.

The British histrion joined Academy Award victor Sir Mark Rylance, Irish comedian and histrion Aisling Bea, 1917 prima George MacKay, Oscar nominee Michael Shannon and exemplary and histrion Lily Cole to backmost Global Witness’s Payback Time campaign.

Ahead of clime acme Cop29 drafting to a adjacent connected Friday, celebrated faces person joined the foundation successful claiming that lipid and state companies “broke” the climate, amid utmost upwind events implicit the past year, and “they should wage to hole it”.

The UN talks, which are taking spot successful Azerbaijan, are looking astatine securing clime concern for low-income countries.

They travel successful the aftermath of devastating upwind extremes, and warnings that 2024 is connected way to beryllium different grounds blistery twelvemonth and the satellite is heading for a “catastrophic” 3.1C of warming connected existent policies.

Law, 51, said: “Oil, state and ember are harming our planet, causing a surge successful deadly upwind events. It’s clip for fossil substance firms to reply for their actions.”

Also among the backers of the Global Witness run are Ireland’s erstwhile president Mary Robinson, English musicians Brian Eno and Jon Hopkins, Ahsoka histrion Rosario Dawson, Harry Potter prima Bonnie Wright arsenic good arsenic directors Adam McKay, known for The Big Short, and Joshua Oppenheimer, who made The Act Of Killing.

Michael Shannon said: “This is the astir important contented facing humanity today. The world volition survive. But we are destroying ourselves.

“We are destroying our children’s future. The grounds is irrefutable and persistent. Please admit this and find abstraction successful your bosom to bash thing astir it.”

Next month, his philharmonic The End, besides starring MacKay, and directed by Oppenheimer, comes out.

The movie is an apocalyptic philharmonic astir a affluent household surviving successful an underground bunker respective years aft the extremity of the world, to which they straight contributed.

MacKay said: “I americium honoured and arrogant to beryllium portion of this action, and portion of the movie The End. Hopefully, it volition spark a caller opening and continuation of truth.”

Fossil fuels relationship for much than 75% of planetary greenhouse state emissions, according to the UN.

Azerbaijan, which has been criticised by quality rights campaigners for cracking down connected biology activists successful the state arsenic it hosts Cop29, is simply a large lipid and state producer.

It has antecedently rejected claims of a crackdown connected biology defenders, and denied holding governmental prisoners.