Polluters Out was founded due to the failure of COP 25. Which is a symptom of a much greater and prolonged issue in which the fossil fuel industry controls every aspect of our society from indigenous lands, governments, banks, universities, and climate negotiations.

When we launched on January 24, 2020 we began with only 150 members from over 40 countries around the world with countless scientists helping us to form our policy and demands. Polluters Out is not your average youth led mobilization, it’s a coalition of the entirety of the climate movement and grassroots organizations from across the world.

For years world leaders and corporations have known of the crisis that we are facing yet they continue to stall action, searching for loopholes instead of real solutions. After seeing the countless youth and indigenous activists removed from COP we realized that this was the accumulated work of the fossil fuel industry and their influence. We need a United Nations that unequivocally stands for the people and the climate, which is why youth activists, adult allies, and scientists from around the world have come together. However this issue does not just start and end at COP and the UNFCCC’s structural flaws (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). The issue of corporate and political greed is rampant, but our power can be channeled into lobbying and mobilizing around real demands and policies that will force societal divestment, ultimately changing the structures in which our current governments, banks, and universities that perpetuate climate injustice.