The initiative, which also involves Kenya, Barbados, Sierra Leone, Benin and Somalia, aims to raise funds for climate action and sustainable development amid extreme weather events across the globe.

The announcement was the first to emerge at the Sevilla Platform for Action, which aims to deliver on a renewed global financing framework agreed ahead of a UN development summit in Spain.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's office said in a statement: "The aim is to help improve green taxation and foster international solidarity by promoting more progressive and harmonised tax systems."

The scheme will get technical support from the European Commission and the countries which signed up to the pledge are all members of the Global Solidarity Levies Task Force, which was established in November 2023 to explore new forms of taxation to help fund and support developing countries' efforts to decarbonise and protect themselves against the impacts of climate change.

A recent report suggested that, as well as an aviation task force, industries which could also be targeted include shipping, oil and gas, and cryptocurrencies.

Greenpeace's Rebecca Newsom hailed the pledge "an important step towards ensuring that the binge users of this undertaxed sector are made to pay their fair share".

She also declared the "obvious" next move would be to hold oil and gas companies to account.