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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.
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?
US aggression and Venezuelan oil
David Whyte reflects on the kidnapping of Venezuelan president, arguing that there has been a tendency in commentaries to neatly segregate climate impacts from the US’s ultimate aim to secure fossil capitalism
The fight for the Hudson River
The US courts have given the green light to dump 45 thousand gallons of radioactive wastewater into New York’s Hudson River, Samira Homerang Saunders reports.
We condemn the intimidation of our colleagues
The Directors of 6 Research Centres at Queen Mary issue a statement condemning the treatment of Professor Richard Falk and Professor Hilal Elver,