Projects

Criminalising Protest

We organised two major conferences in collaboration with Defend Our Juries and Lawyers Are Responsible in March 2023 and April 2024 on the extraordinary clampdown against climate and anti-war protestors in recent years.

In May 2026, we published a new report which is the first to comprehensively analyse trends in the jailing of Britain’s Political Prisoners

Centre members are editing a special issue of the Journal of State Crime for this project, planned for publication in early 2027.

This project is a collaboration with:

Carbon Profiteers

This project looks follows the money made from fossil fuel production, in a series of research reports based on new analyses of financial data. The first two reports (‘Carbon Cash Machine‘, August 2023 and ‘Beyond Divestment‘, October 2023) documented how much earnings BP and Shell shareholders have accumulated since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015 and analysed investment patterns in those companies to better understand the challenges facing fossil fuel divestment campaigns.

A third report (‘Toxic Investors‘, April 2025) explored how a small group of mega investors is the driving force behind the oil industry’s abandonment of environmental goals.

The fourth report, ‘Britain’s Dirtiest Investors’, names the 107 Briitsh companies that invest the most in fossil fuels. This report will be published in June 2026.

The first 2 reports in this project were a collaboration with:

Land Defenders

This project builds collaborative work with people engaged in struggles over the capitalist development of land.

We are working with local community-based groups in Haiti to understand displacement and land dispossession. Centre Co-director Angela Sherwood’s new book was published in June 2026: Humanitarian Crimes: Disasters, Dispossession and Resistance in Port-au-Prince.

We initiated and hosted three days of Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal hearings on state and environmental violence in West Papua in June 2024 and published a major report Bringing in All Back Home that exposed the complicity of British companies in deforestation, exploitation and repression.

We are currently developing a collaboration with the Brazilian landless workers’ union, the MST.

Link to the video of the meeting A Voice to Peoples: The Peoples’ Tribunal and the Fight for Justice and Self-Determination from West Papua to the Philippines! organised by the Indigenous Peoples’ Movement for Self Determinaton and Liberation, 10th October 2024.

The Politics of Ecocide Law

This project assesses current proposals to introduce ecocide as an indictable crime in the International Criminal Court in Rome and uses the findings to advise regional and national policy makers in Westminster and in the Scottish and Catalan Parliaments. A special issue of the journal Environmental Politics titled ‘The Politics of Ecocide’ edited by CCCCJ members will be published in Autumn 2026.

We helped draft Baroness Rosie Boycott’s Ecocide Bill, currently in Parliament.

We coordinated a joint response to Monica Lennon MSP’s proposal for an Ecocide law in Scotland from 5 organisations. Read the report in the Herald here.

Labour and Climate Action

This project explores how workers and their organisations can develop climate action through industrial strategies that can improve labour conditions.

The project began with a major one-day conference held in October 2023 and the publication of a report for the Institute of Employment Rights Working for Climate Justice.

The findings of the report were discussed at meetings hosted by the Scottish Trades Union Congress, Yorkshire and Humberside TUC and the Public and Commercial Services Union in 2024.