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.

Israel’s strategy of ecocide

We reproduce Centre Director David Whyte's evidence to the Gaza Tribunal last week on Israel's deliberate strategy to render Gaza unliveable.

Lift the ban!

We release a statement that condemns the arrest of our colleagues for organising protests against the genocide in Gaza.

The boat is leaking. The captain lied.

CCCCJ member Bill Spence reviews Overshoot, a book that seeks to explain why the world is carrying on as if climate change is a conspiracy and how we can change course.

Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9

The Global Secretariat of the International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation responds to the pardon of the ‘Ogoni Nine’ by the Nigerian government.

Defending the river, defending life

This year’s Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLASCO) Award has been won by the Ríos Vivos Movement. Ignasi Bernat reports, and we reproduce the movement's acceptance speech.