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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jillian Ambrose and Damian Carrington

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

A giant firefighter figure stands amid wildfire smoke and flames beside a rising stock chart arrow, symbolizing oil profits
The impacts this summer include Europe’s worst ever heatwave, the latest to be categorised by scientists as ‘impossible’ without human-caused global heating. Composite: Guardian Design/Reuters/EPA/AP/Getty Images/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

Eight of the biggest oil companies amassed profits of more than $90bn (£67bn) in just three months as the Iran conflict sent energy prices soaring and the emissions-fuelled climate crisis caused deadly heatwaves.

The windfall war profits have reignited calls for oil and gas supermajors such as Saudi Aramco and BP to pay for the environmental damage caused by “cashing in on human misery” and fund a rapid transition to renewable energy.

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