Criminalisation and Repression of Climate and Environmental Protest

The Criminalisation and Repression of Climate and Environmental Protests around the World study aimed to address the following questions: What are the patterns of criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest around the world? What new laws and powers have been introduced and/or used? The study distinguishes between environmental protest and climate protest, whilst acknowledging that many activists engage in both types. Environmental protests are aimed at stopping specific environmentally destructive projects. These are most commonly against fossil fuel exploration and extraction, deforestation, dam building or mining. Climate protests are often more urban in their geographies and tend to have greater political demands.