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The Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice is a research centre based at Queen Mary University of London.

Our work exposes climate offenders and supports social movements fighting for climate justice.

The obliteration of life in Lebanon

Stefanie Khoury argues that Israel's military strategy that deliberately targets infrastructures sustaining life is now extended from Gaza back to the Lebanese context in which it first emerged.

University pensions and coal

The Universities pension scheme, USS, claims it is divesting from coal. But how true is this? Bill Spence sets the record straight.

Switzerland’s climate paradox

Stefanie Khoury reflects on the latest Davos summit and explores the contradictions between Switzerland's economic supremacy and climate vulnerability.

Plants against property

Sarah Keenan reflects on the story of Japanese knotweed, and what it tells us about human-centred understandings of value, life, and land

Trees vs insurance companies

Kat Scott reports from a campaign to save a 170-year-old oak tree in Essex, which became a test case for corporate greenwashing, and the limits of environmental law in practice. In this blog she asks, does anyone want to live in a world where insurance companies decide the fate of old trees?