The Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice

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.

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How we took on an oil giant — and won Oil companies may seem invincible, but they are more vulnerable than you think, says climate justice litigator Melinda Janki. She tells the story of how she took on ExxonMobil in her home country of G...

“Oil companies may seem invincible but they are more vulnerable than you think” says climate justice litigator Melinda Janki

Watch here:

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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.

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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.

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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 👇👇

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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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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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“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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“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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ABSTRACT This article interrogates the impact that the codification of the International Crime of Ecocide may have in addressing and curtailing the environmental harms produced by the chemical industry in Latin America and the Global South. We contend that the International Crime of Ecocide should challenge the historical narratives that have informed international law and its relationship with colonialism. The role that Monsanto/Bayer plays in ecocidal practices such as the development, testing, and use of Agent Orange as war technology is examined, and we demonstrate its connection with current uses of Glyphosate in the war on drugs. At the center of this reflection are the connections between the chemical corporation, state crime, war, and ecocide. This allows us to offer a broader picture of the sociolegal and criminogenic practices that have historically contributed to ecocide and the normalization of corporate impunity in the Global South, specifically after World War II.

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

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ABSTRACT Stop Ecocide’s proposal to criminalize ecocide under the International Criminal Court relies on states’ capacity to punish offenders, often focusing narrowly on immediate ecological harm rather than structural causes. Recent scholarship highlights the state’s infrastructural role in enabling environmental crime through legal and economic frameworks facilitating capital accumulation. This paper examines the 2022 Repsol oil spill in Peru as a case study, demonstrating how the disaster resulted from long-term decisions by both Spanish and Peruvian states. It argues that ecocide must be understood within a colonial matrix that enriches fossil capital while creating conditions for ecological destruction. By analysing the historical relationship between Repsol, Spanish financial capital, and the Peruvian state, the paper reveals how criminalising discrete events overlooks systemic complicity. Without addressing these deeper colonial and economic dynamics, ecocide laws risk being ineffective or even counterproductive. The paper calls for a shift in focus from isolated crimes to the structural processes enabling environmental harm.

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.

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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...

Thames Water and the failures of privatisation - Red Pepper Thames Water has provoked a very high level of public anger. Eleanor Godwin and David Whyte discuss why and explore what we can do about it

"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

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Find it here!

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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.

Law’s quick fix? Ecocide, social transformation and the pitfalls of criminalisation Calls to criminalise ‘ecocide’ are, it seems, everywhere. What unites these calls is both a sense of urgency and a need for international action. The need for a quick and plausible fix makes intern...

This just out now, wherein @david-whyte.bsky.social (of @ccccjustice.bsky.social) gently pick apart the case for an international crime of ecocide.

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Our Director @david-whyte.bsky.social is talking at this event in London tonight!

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Looking forward to this event at Kairos, Tottenham Court Rd London W1T 4TG.

tomorrow.

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Fossil Capital’s Regulatory Havens in the Carribean Offshore jurisdictions don’t just hide wealth — they enable the climate crisis by shielding the fossil fuel industry from taxes, environmental regulation, and political accountability.

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

BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street are the real power behind Big Oil’s climate retreat.

Read our report on the shareholders who are driving us to the point of no return.

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The Big Money Firms Bankrolling a Global Retreat From Climate Targets A small group of “super investors” is quietly fuelling the oil industry’s abandonment of environmental goals

🔴The Big Money Firms Bankrolling a Global Retreat From Climate Targets

A small group of “super investors” is quietly fuelling the oil industry’s abandonment of environmental goals

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Check out our latest research report on the movers and shakers behind Big Oil.

Reported by @bylinetimes.bsky.social

In our latest blog, Shodona Kettle and Andrea Castillo report on a devastating oil spill in Ecuador that has destroyed sections of the Esmeraldas river in the eastern Amazonian region of Ecuador & devastated the lives of half and million people.

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