Peter Newell
@peternewell.bsky.social
Academic, activist, lover of nature, football, drums & dogs
New paper with Daniela Soto Hernandez in Geoforum on the political economy of Chile’s coal transition
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The political economy of Chile’s coal transition
In debates about just transitions the experience of unjust coal transitions loom large. Case studies often focus on the experience of countries in Eur…
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February 7, 2026 at 6:16 PM
New paper with Daniela Soto Hernandez in Geoforum on the political economy of Chile’s coal transition
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Towards an orderly and just exit from fossil fuels academic.oup.com/ia/article/d...
My latest article in @iajournal.bsky.social
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My latest article in @iajournal.bsky.social
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Towards an orderly and just exit from fossil fuels
How can the competing goals and diverse interests involved in a just and multilateral transition away from fossil fuels be reconciled? This article explore
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January 26, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Towards an orderly and just exit from fossil fuels academic.oup.com/ia/article/d...
My latest article in @iajournal.bsky.social
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My latest article in @iajournal.bsky.social
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If you are into the practical politics of hope, come and join me, @peternewell.bsky.social, @carolinelucas.bsky.social, @jeanmclean.bsky.social at this, to talk about getting out of the mess we're in... www.attenboroughcentre.com/events/5651/...
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
A interdisciplinary arts hub connecting University of Sussex to Brighton & Hove and the wider international arts community.
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January 16, 2026 at 12:35 PM
If you are into the practical politics of hope, come and join me, @peternewell.bsky.social, @carolinelucas.bsky.social, @jeanmclean.bsky.social at this, to talk about getting out of the mess we're in... www.attenboroughcentre.com/events/5651/...
Join me in conversation with @carolinelucas.bsky.social @andrewsimms.bsky.social & Jean McLean to discuss hope & despair in building progressive futures together.
February 18th 5.30pm at the @attenboroughac.bsky.social Sussex University. Register here:
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February 18th 5.30pm at the @attenboroughac.bsky.social Sussex University. Register here:
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Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
A interdisciplinary arts hub connecting University of Sussex to Brighton & Hove and the wider international arts community.
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January 14, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Join me in conversation with @carolinelucas.bsky.social @andrewsimms.bsky.social & Jean McLean to discuss hope & despair in building progressive futures together.
February 18th 5.30pm at the @attenboroughac.bsky.social Sussex University. Register here:
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February 18th 5.30pm at the @attenboroughac.bsky.social Sussex University. Register here:
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#6: Towards a more transformative approach to climate finance. @peternewell.bsky.social
Towards a more transformative approach to climate finance
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January 12, 2026 at 8:01 AM
#6: Towards a more transformative approach to climate finance. @peternewell.bsky.social
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Our Environment and Climate Politics Working Group has a new podcast ep out now - 'New Books Network podcast - States of transition' 🌳
Peter Newell discusses his book 'States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society' w/ Pauline Heinrichs 🎧
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Peter Newell discusses his book 'States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society' w/ Pauline Heinrichs 🎧
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January 6, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Our Environment and Climate Politics Working Group has a new podcast ep out now - 'New Books Network podcast - States of transition' 🌳
Peter Newell discusses his book 'States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society' w/ Pauline Heinrichs 🎧
👉 https://ow.ly/YfB750XSiR8
Peter Newell discusses his book 'States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society' w/ Pauline Heinrichs 🎧
👉 https://ow.ly/YfB750XSiR8
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New Books Network podcast!
In this conversation, our convenor @paulinesophieh.bsky.social talks to @peternewell.bsky.social about his book States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society.
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In this conversation, our convenor @paulinesophieh.bsky.social talks to @peternewell.bsky.social about his book States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society.
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New Books Network podcast - States of transition- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA
- Environment and Climate Politics Working Group
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January 5, 2026 at 11:18 AM
New Books Network podcast!
In this conversation, our convenor @paulinesophieh.bsky.social talks to @peternewell.bsky.social about his book States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society.
Check it out!
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In this conversation, our convenor @paulinesophieh.bsky.social talks to @peternewell.bsky.social about his book States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society.
Check it out!
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Estudio internacional alerta: los “proyectos verdes” de petroleras prolongan el modelo del combustible fósil.
Dirigido por Marcel Llavero-Pasquina del ICTA-UAB
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Estudio internacional alerta: los “proyectos verdes” de petroleras prolongan el modelo del combustible fósil - Noticias Ambientales
Descubre cómo los llamados proyectos verdes de la industria del petróleo prolongan el uso de combustibles fósiles.
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December 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Estudio internacional alerta: los “proyectos verdes” de petroleras prolongan el modelo del combustible fósil.
Dirigido por Marcel Llavero-Pasquina del ICTA-UAB
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📢 56 academics warn corporate lawsuits threaten UK climate action
As the UK is sued over the blocked West Cumbria coal mine, academics warn that ISDS lets investors challenge climate action in private tribunals.
📄 Read the open letter 👇
As the UK is sued over the blocked West Cumbria coal mine, academics warn that ISDS lets investors challenge climate action in private tribunals.
📄 Read the open letter 👇
December 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
📢 56 academics warn corporate lawsuits threaten UK climate action
As the UK is sued over the blocked West Cumbria coal mine, academics warn that ISDS lets investors challenge climate action in private tribunals.
📄 Read the open letter 👇
As the UK is sued over the blocked West Cumbria coal mine, academics warn that ISDS lets investors challenge climate action in private tribunals.
📄 Read the open letter 👇
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Today, more than 90% of world trade relies on trade finance.
Over 75% of major food-trading companies’ income now comes from financial operations like agricultural derivatives – not from moving wheat, coffee, cocoa or other agricultural products.
UNCTAD report ▶️ https://ow.ly/hQZB50XIho6
Over 75% of major food-trading companies’ income now comes from financial operations like agricultural derivatives – not from moving wheat, coffee, cocoa or other agricultural products.
UNCTAD report ▶️ https://ow.ly/hQZB50XIho6
December 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Today, more than 90% of world trade relies on trade finance.
Over 75% of major food-trading companies’ income now comes from financial operations like agricultural derivatives – not from moving wheat, coffee, cocoa or other agricultural products.
UNCTAD report ▶️ https://ow.ly/hQZB50XIho6
Over 75% of major food-trading companies’ income now comes from financial operations like agricultural derivatives – not from moving wheat, coffee, cocoa or other agricultural products.
UNCTAD report ▶️ https://ow.ly/hQZB50XIho6
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What if change is actually stability in disguise?
In a new perspective paper, @peternewell.bsky.social, Oliver Bugge Hunt and I argue that we should not understand change as the opposite of stability. Rather, we can think of change and stability as co-constitutive of one another.
In a new perspective paper, @peternewell.bsky.social, Oliver Bugge Hunt and I argue that we should not understand change as the opposite of stability. Rather, we can think of change and stability as co-constitutive of one another.
December 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
What if change is actually stability in disguise?
In a new perspective paper, @peternewell.bsky.social, Oliver Bugge Hunt and I argue that we should not understand change as the opposite of stability. Rather, we can think of change and stability as co-constitutive of one another.
In a new perspective paper, @peternewell.bsky.social, Oliver Bugge Hunt and I argue that we should not understand change as the opposite of stability. Rather, we can think of change and stability as co-constitutive of one another.
New paper with Joachim Peter Tilsted & Oliver Bugge Hunt in Energy Research & Social Science ‘Trasformismo: Advancing understandings of the relationship between stability & change in transitions’
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Trasformismo: Advancing understandings of the relationship between stability and change in transitions
Transitions research explores the dimensions and loci of stability and change. In theorising the interrelation between the two, the neo-Gramscian noti…
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December 6, 2025 at 7:45 AM
New paper with Joachim Peter Tilsted & Oliver Bugge Hunt in Energy Research & Social Science ‘Trasformismo: Advancing understandings of the relationship between stability & change in transitions’
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📢 A just transition means phasing out fossil fuels and the ISDS system that protects them 📢
A new contribution from @kylat.bsky.social sets out why reform to the investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) system is essential for phase-outs.
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A new contribution from @kylat.bsky.social sets out why reform to the investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) system is essential for phase-outs.
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A just transition requires roadmaps to phase-out fossil fuels and ISDS
At COP30, calls to phase-out fossil fuels were blocked, but Colombia pushed on -also warning that ISDS remains a major barrier to the transition.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
📢 A just transition means phasing out fossil fuels and the ISDS system that protects them 📢
A new contribution from @kylat.bsky.social sets out why reform to the investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) system is essential for phase-outs.
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Quick 🧵👇
A new contribution from @kylat.bsky.social sets out why reform to the investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) system is essential for phase-outs.
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My essay “Oil Futures” is out now in @newleftreview.bsky.social's Sidecar!
Following Norway's September elections, ongoing struggles against fossil fuels in Europe’s only petrostate challenge incumbent fossil hegemony and its complicity in the Israeli occupation:
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Following Norway's September elections, ongoing struggles against fossil fuels in Europe’s only petrostate challenge incumbent fossil hegemony and its complicity in the Israeli occupation:
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Lukas Slothuus, Oil Futures — Sidecar
Norway’s elections.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
My essay “Oil Futures” is out now in @newleftreview.bsky.social's Sidecar!
Following Norway's September elections, ongoing struggles against fossil fuels in Europe’s only petrostate challenge incumbent fossil hegemony and its complicity in the Israeli occupation:
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Following Norway's September elections, ongoing struggles against fossil fuels in Europe’s only petrostate challenge incumbent fossil hegemony and its complicity in the Israeli occupation:
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Towards a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FF-NPT)
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#ParentsForFuture has stood behind @fossiltreaty.bsky.social since day one.
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@peternewell.bsky.social @andrewsimms.bsky.social 2019
#ParentsForFuture has stood behind @fossiltreaty.bsky.social since day one.
![Screenshot von zwei Twitter-Beiträgen aus 2019 zum Thema Klimapolitik und fossile Brennstoffe.
Der obere Beitrag stammt von „Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels...“ (10. Juli 2019) und fordert eine „Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FF-NPT)“. Zitat: „[...] leave large swathes of remaining fossil fuels in the ground. Towards that end, we make the case for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FF-NPT) to deal with emissions at source.“ Darunter ein Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2019.1636759
Der eingebettete Tweet darunter ist von „Peter Newell“ (08. Juli 2019) und kündigt einen neuen Artikel in *Climate Policy* an: „New article just published in Climate Policy on the need for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Towards a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2019.1636759 ...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vb4q6gkecpq2rx2d6rrpbqio/bafkreifihca7lzcayaxqircrwffenlsw6n3qa4rjg6ixncmeltaftrjneu@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Towards a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FF-NPT)
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@peternewell.bsky.social @andrewsimms.bsky.social 2019
#ParentsForFuture has stood behind @fossiltreaty.bsky.social since day one.
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@peternewell.bsky.social @andrewsimms.bsky.social 2019
#ParentsForFuture has stood behind @fossiltreaty.bsky.social since day one.
The world is watching @cop30brazil.bsky.social. Show leadership and add the fossil fuel phase-out roadmap to the #COP30 agreement. Listen to @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social and follow the 80+ countries that want justice! Climate targets cannot be met without cutting fossil fuels @suspol.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The world is watching @cop30brazil.bsky.social. Show leadership and add the fossil fuel phase-out roadmap to the #COP30 agreement. Listen to @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social and follow the 80+ countries that want justice! Climate targets cannot be met without cutting fossil fuels @suspol.bsky.social
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States of transition? From governing the environment to transforming society
@peternewell.bsky.social's new book examines state power within broader social relations to explore the possibilities and challenges of building a ‘transition state’.
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@peternewell.bsky.social's new book examines state power within broader social relations to explore the possibilities and challenges of building a ‘transition state’.
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States of transition? From governing the environment to transforming society
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November 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
States of transition? From governing the environment to transforming society
@peternewell.bsky.social's new book examines state power within broader social relations to explore the possibilities and challenges of building a ‘transition state’.
isrf.org/blog/states-...
@peternewell.bsky.social's new book examines state power within broader social relations to explore the possibilities and challenges of building a ‘transition state’.
isrf.org/blog/states-...
New blog for @isrfoundation.bsky.social on my new book States of Transition with @universitypress.cambridge.org
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States of transition? From governing the environment to transforming society
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November 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
New blog for @isrfoundation.bsky.social on my new book States of Transition with @universitypress.cambridge.org
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#Cambodia just became the 18th country to officially support the #FossilFuelTreaty! 🇰🇭
At #COP30 in Belém, Cambodia affirmed their commitment to a fast, fair and financed global transition aligned with a low-carbon, climate-resilient future.
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At #COP30 in Belém, Cambodia affirmed their commitment to a fast, fair and financed global transition aligned with a low-carbon, climate-resilient future.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
#Cambodia just became the 18th country to officially support the #FossilFuelTreaty! 🇰🇭
At #COP30 in Belém, Cambodia affirmed their commitment to a fast, fair and financed global transition aligned with a low-carbon, climate-resilient future.
🔗 FossilFuelTreaty.org/cambodia%EF%...
At #COP30 in Belém, Cambodia affirmed their commitment to a fast, fair and financed global transition aligned with a low-carbon, climate-resilient future.
🔗 FossilFuelTreaty.org/cambodia%EF%...
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💨 In 2025, a report from the Royal College of Physicians found that air pollution contributed to 30,000 deaths in the UK in 2025 and cost the UK upwards of £27 billion annually – and may be as much as £50 billion when wider impacts, such as dementia, are accounted for.
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
💨 In 2025, a report from the Royal College of Physicians found that air pollution contributed to 30,000 deaths in the UK in 2025 and cost the UK upwards of £27 billion annually – and may be as much as £50 billion when wider impacts, such as dementia, are accounted for.
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📢 ❗Just published: "Solar geoengineering for profit"
In this new blog, a group of academics responds to recent for-profit solar geoengineering ventures.
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Their key message? 🧵👇
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In this new blog, a group of academics responds to recent for-profit solar geoengineering ventures.
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Their key message? 🧵👇
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Solar geoengineering for profit - Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement
Advocates of solar geoengineering are dismayed. But why are they surprised?
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November 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
📢 ❗Just published: "Solar geoengineering for profit"
In this new blog, a group of academics responds to recent for-profit solar geoengineering ventures.
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Their key message? 🧵👇
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In this new blog, a group of academics responds to recent for-profit solar geoengineering ventures.
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Their key message? 🧵👇
1/8
New @ids.ac.uk bulletin on Struggles for Justice in the Energy Transition: Views from the Frontlines
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Struggles for Justice in the Energy Transition: Views from the Front Lines - Institute of Development Studies
The articles in this IDS Bulletin highlight cases of advocacy being used to strengthen community voices to make the processes of consultation more inclusive and empowering of marginalised perspectives...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
New @ids.ac.uk bulletin on Struggles for Justice in the Energy Transition: Views from the Frontlines
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I am thrilled that @carolinelucas.bsky.social is joining Sussex University as Professor of Practice in Environmental Sustainability to help me and my colleagues in the School of Progressive Futures support critically needed research, teaching and civic engagement on this vital issue. @sussex.ac.uk
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Caroline Lucas, former leader of the Green Party and MP for Brighton Pavilion, as the University's first Professor of Practice in Environmental Sustainability at the Sussex School for Progressive Futures (SSPF).
Caroline Lucas appointed as new Professor of Practice at the University of Sussex
Caroline Lucas has been appointed by the University of Sussex as its first Professor of Practice in Environmental Sustainability.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I am thrilled that @carolinelucas.bsky.social is joining Sussex University as Professor of Practice in Environmental Sustainability to help me and my colleagues in the School of Progressive Futures support critically needed research, teaching and civic engagement on this vital issue. @sussex.ac.uk
My new book is out States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society published by @universitypress.cambridge.org
With thanks to @carolinelucas.bsky.social @profjohnbarry.bsky.social & Jennifer Clapp for generous endorsements
With thanks to @carolinelucas.bsky.social @profjohnbarry.bsky.social & Jennifer Clapp for generous endorsements
November 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
My new book is out States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society published by @universitypress.cambridge.org
With thanks to @carolinelucas.bsky.social @profjohnbarry.bsky.social & Jennifer Clapp for generous endorsements
With thanks to @carolinelucas.bsky.social @profjohnbarry.bsky.social & Jennifer Clapp for generous endorsements