Peter Newell
Peter Newell is Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex and co-founder and research director of the Rapid Transition Alliance
Peter Newell is Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex and co-founder and research director of the Rapid Transition Alliance
By Peter Newell, Green European Journal
The campaign for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty embodies key principles of Green foreign policy: peaceful disarmament, dealing with the root causes of ecological devastation by holding polluters to account, and a belief in internationalism and multilateralism.
By Peter Newell, Freddie Daley, Michelle Twena, Rapid Transition Alliance
A major new report by the Cambridge Sustainability Commission on Scaling Behaviour Change calls on policy makers to target the UK’s polluter elite to trigger a shift to more sustainable behaviour, and provide affordable, available low-carbon alternatives to poorer households.
By Peter Newell, Rapid Transition Alliance
For a council to have called a ‘climate emergency’, commonly advanced guidelines say that they must have: used these specific words in a motion or executive decision; they must set a target date to reduce their local climate impacts consistent with the IPCC report; they must set up a working group to report within a short timescale; and they must engage with a cross section of the community.
By Andrew Simms, Peter Newell, The Guardian blog
A moratorium could take the form of a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty. The threat of nuclear catastrophe provides a precedent for how, quickly, to stop a bad situation getting worse.
By Peter Newell, Sam Knafo, Red Pepper
Leo Panitch speaks to Peter Newell and Sam Knafo about his book The Making of Global Capitalism – and what it means for strategy and action aimed at ‘un-making’ capitalism