Our letter in @thetimes today. "The British government has failed to reign in climate offenders and is intensifying the use of policing and judicial powers against climate defenders." . "We pledge to lend our full support to climate defenders who are criminalised by the state."

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. 👇👇👇.

RT @CitizensArrestN: CEO’s can’t run from their crimes. CEO Amjad Bseisu, ran away when women tried to citizen’s arrest him this afternoon….

RT @CitizensArrestN: BREAKING: 3 Oil & Gas bosses citizen’s arrested in 1 day. Across central London today 3 women made 3 separate citizen….

RT @CitizensArrestN: Officer! Arrest that CEO!. Yesterday the CEO of @Shell awarded himself an £8.6 million pound pay package as he gave th….

RT @ccccjustice: Coming up next week. Our very own @Natasha_Walter, feminist writer and Hon Prof at the @ccccjustice will speak at this e….

RT @ccccjustice: "Inclusion in the Convention is a symbolic step. The long durée of struggles among Afro-descendant communities & Indigenou….

"Inclusion in the Convention is a symbolic step. The long durée of struggles among Afro-descendant communities & Indigenous Peoples in Latin America & the Caribbean underscore the need for sustainable reparative models.". @Shae_Pixie_Kay writes powerfully in our latest blog. 👇.

Coming up next week. Our very own @Natasha_Walter, feminist writer and Hon Prof at the @ccccjustice will speak at this event at @qmul. She will argue that understanding resistance of the past can strengthen activists today. Don't miss it!.

No climate justice, no racial justice, no peace!. Read the latest CCCCJ blog by @Shae_Pixie_Kay exploring the justice struggles faced by Indigenous and Afro-descended communities across Latin America and the Caribbean👇🏾.

We'll be at this important meeting at Pelican House, London E1 5QJ tomorrow.

Over 70 West Papuan tribes, political groups, and customary and civil society organisations have endorsed the Indonesia boycott campaign. We'll be joining them in Central London next week - Thursday 20th March - at the launch of this important campaign.

On a more positive note - the Carbon Majors database and reports have been relied upon in a number of legal cases worldwide, including Climate Superfund litigation in New York and Vermont, and ClientEarth’s complaint against BlackRock for misleading investors.

The largest state-owned emitters named in the report include Saudi Aramco, Coal India, CHN Energy (China) and the largest investor-owned corporate emitters include ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell. Graphic credit: The Guardian

In a list dominated by state-owned entities (16/20), the top 20 highest carbon-producing entities collectively accounted for 17.5 GtCO2e in emissions in 2023, with their CO2 emissions representing 40.8% of global carbon emissions.

Carbon Majors describes itself as a database of historical production data from 180 of the world’s largest oil, gas, coal, and cement producers; it is updated annually and available at:

The latest release of the Carbon Majors report data demonstrates that only 36 companies (inc state-owned) are responsible for over half of the world’s atmosphere-heating fossil fuel pollution (equivalent to over 20bn tonnes of CO2 in 2023): .

RT @LS4CA: Are you a law student in the US or UK looking for an opportunity to work towards climate justice in the legal profession? If so,….

🚨 New article out by @ccccjustice members: Samira Homerang Saunders @d_whyte100 & @angela_sherwood . 'Autonomy over Life: the Struggle Against Capitalist Development in West Papua' published in @StateCrimeJ .

Coverage of the protest is available at:

This all raises vital questions about how countries will move towards - or away from - climate justice in their energy transition. And for law firms like A&O Shearman, it raises questions about which projects they choose to highlight to distract from their fossil fuel practices.