@ccccjustice.bsky.social
The CCCCJ is based at Queen Mary University of London School of Law. We produce research that supports climate defenders and exposes climate offenders. https://ccccjustice.org/
📢New on the CCCCJ Blog:
Switzerland's Climate Paradox
Stefanie Khoury explores Switzerland’s deep links with the fossil economy, its global climate impacts, and what needs to change.
ccccjustice.org/2026/02/11/s...
Plants against Property🌱
In our latest blog, @sarahkeenan.bsky.social explores how corporate risk, colonial histories and market logics shape land value - and how plants push back, forcing land to be used as a habitat & resource rather than a market commodity
ccccjustice.org/2026/02/02/e...
📢📢Don't miss this upcoming event at QMUL
Medicine Under Attack: Testimonies from Gaza with Dr. Guy Shalev and Dr. Said Eid
Tuesday, Feb 10 from 6:15 pm to 8 pm
Eventbrite below:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/medicine-u...
Our latest blog reports on a campaign to save a 170-year-old oak tree in Essex - a test case for corporate greenwashing & environmental law.
ccccjustice.org/2026/01/21/t...
@stopthechop.bsky.social
Our latest blog reproduces Centre Director David Whyte's evidence to the Gaza Tribunal on Israel's deliberate strategy to render Gaza unliveable.
The ecocide in Gaza is part and parcel of the genocide.
ccccjustice.org/2025/10/31/t...
“Oil companies may seem invincible but they are more vulnerable than you think” says climate justice litigator Melinda Janki
Watch here:
www.ted.com/talks/melind...
Securing access to minerals essential for the green transition will in the 21st century will be a resource curse, just like fossil fuels were in the 20th Century.
Steve Rushton reports on the new mineral curse in our latest blog.
ccccjustice.org/2025/09/25/m...
Today we launch a major new report that reveals how British investors profit from the destruction of the third largest rainforest in the world, in West Papua.
Those investors are implicated in a brutal campaign of political repression.
Read the report here 👇👇👇
ccccjustice.org/publications/
Get down to Westminster Magistrates Court today from 10am if you can.
We will fight for our colleagues to be released.
Protesting against a genocide is not terrorism.
End this ridiculous charade and lift the ban.
Yesterday the police raided the houses of our close colleagues in Defend Our Juries. They are facing very serious charges just for protesting against a genocide.
We demand their immediate release.
Read our statement here 👇👇
ccccjustice.org/2025/09/03/e...
We stand in solidarity with our colleague, Paddy Friend, who was arrested today
We fully support all the activists who are being criminalised for opposing genocide
Lift the ban and end this pointless political charade
Just published!!!!
CCCCJ member @billspence.bsky.social reviews 'Overshoot', a book which seeks to explain why the world is carrying on as if climate change is a conspiracy (if though we all know its real)..
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ccccjustice.org/2025/07/31/t...
Ogoni activists and rights organisations criticise the hypocrisy of the Nigerian state.
Is the pardon of the Ogoni 9 a precursor to more oil extraction in the Niger Delta?
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ccccjustice.org/2025/06/26/k...
“We get stronger as a movement in spite of the threats & the assassinations!”
This year’s CLASCO Award has been won by the Ríos Vivos Movement. Read Ignasi Bernat's commentary & translation of the Ríos Vivos Movevement's acceptance speach on our latest blog.
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ccccjustice.org/2025/06/16/d...
“We remain alive... to leave a better land for future generations.”
This year’s CLASCO Award has been won by the Ríos Vivos Movement. Ignasi Bernat's commentary and translation of the speech given by the Ríos Vivos Movevement's Milena Mora is here.
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ccccjustice.org/2025/06/16/d...
New article!
Ecocidal impunity? Wars and the profitability of the chemical corporation in the global south, by Jose Atiles & Gustavo Rojas-Páez. / @joseatiles.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
New article!
Ecocide in Peru: Repsol and the colonial regime of permission by Ignasi Bernat Molina.
Without addressing deeper colonial and economic dynamics, ecocide laws risk being ineffective or even counterproductive.
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
The legal profession is grappling with the ethical predicaments posed by the climate and ecological crisis. Lawyers are asking how they refuse work that contributes to climate breakdown.
Reas our latest blog from Eduard Zelinschi and Monika Sobiecki here: ccccjustice.org/2025/05/26/r...
"Public ownership is the only way we can save our crumbling utilities"
Thames Water, more than any other privatised company, has provoked a very high level of public anger. Eleanor Godwin and David Whyte discuss why and explore what we can do about it
www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-un...
Find it here!
ccccjustice.org/2025/05/07/c...
Will Labour's plan to criminalise water bosses clean up our rivers?
Our new blog from Eleanor Godwin and @david-whyte.bsky.social, co-published with @redpeppermag.bsky.social
Will Labour's plan to prosecute water bosses clean up our rivers?
Read our brand new blog by Eleanor Godwin and
@david-whyte.bsky.social, co-posted with @redpeppermag.bsky.social
This is a terrific piece which does a great job at both critiquing the criminalisation of ecocide and offering crucial insight on the law-as-a-quick-fix and the implications thereof
Laws Quick Fix?
Check this newly published analysis of ecocide law by @pashukanist.bsky.social and our Director @david-whyte.bsky.social.
This just out now, wherein @david-whyte.bsky.social (of @ccccjustice.bsky.social) gently pick apart the case for an international crime of ecocide.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our Director @david-whyte.bsky.social is talking at this event in London tonight!
www.kairos.london/event/kill-t...
Looking forward to this event at Kairos, Tottenham Court Rd London W1T 4TG.
tomorrow.
www.kairos.london/event/kill-t...
Check out the short version of our Fossil Capitals piece for the @lpeblog.bsky.social, where we break down how tax havens help fossil fuel interests thrive in the Caribbean.
Fossil Capital in the Caribbean
In our new blog, @joseatiles.bsky.social and @david-whyte.bsky.social exposes the role of offshore secrecy jurisdictions in facilitating climate breakdown.
Read it here: ccccjustice.org/2025/04/22/e...
Check out our latest research report on the movers and shakers behind Big Oil.
Reported by @bylinetimes.bsky.social