Peter Newell
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In his talk Peter explores what can be learned from emergent practice around contestations over just transitions and relevant examples of previous experience of citizen attempts to centre justice issues in resource politics. Are there key insights that might inform contemporary efforts to ensure that energy transitions are just transitions? In order to identify insights from these experiences and struggles as they might pertain to contemporary attempts to ensure transitions are more socially just, Peter, together with colleagues explores a broad body of work on (i) just transitions, energy justice and energy transitions (ii) contentious resource politics and attempts to democratise them, and (iii) social movement struggles for justice. They focus, in particular, on issues of voice (representation), spaces (for participation) and alliances (for change).
Peter Newell is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex. He is a specialist in the politics and political economy of environment and development. For more than 25 years he has conducted research, consultancy and advisory work on issues of climate change and energy, agricultural biotechnology, corporate accountability and trade policy working in a number of countries including Argentina, Brazil, China, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Mexico and South Africa. In recent years his research has mainly focussed on the political economy of carbon markets and low carbon energy transitions.