Peter Newell
@peternewell.bsky.social
Academic, activist, lover of nature, football, drums & dogs
How could a global, equitable transition away from fossil fuels look like through a binding global Treaty? 🌎 🤔 We’ve just released a new series of briefing papers exploring the essential architecture of a potential Fossil Fuel Treaty. Read more at FossilFuelTreaty.org/optionspapers
Delighted these legal briefings on elements of a @fossiltreaty.bsky.social are out. Pleasure to work with Renatus @harrovanasselt.bsky.social & @freddiedaley.bsky.social on these. Please do share. Feedback welcome! @sussexfss.bsky.social @sussexsrp.bsky.social
Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative@fossiltreaty.bsky.social · yesterdayHow could a global, equitable transition away from fossil fuels look like through a binding global Treaty? 🌎 🤔 We’ve just released a new series of briefing papers exploring the essential architecture of a potential Fossil Fuel Treaty. Read more at FossilFuelTreaty.org/optionspapers
1/ Kemi Badenoch says she isn't a climate denier. Let's take her at her word. Here are five findings she wrote around this week as though they don't exist. 🧵
1/ @mjflepage.bsky.social argues in @newscientist.com that more North Sea drilling doesn't matter for the #climate, because what counts is how much we burn. He's usually excellent as a climate writer and I found the piece a real let-down. A thread on why. 🧵
If you missed it live, catch up with @peternewell.bsky.social guest lecture at our Launch Event 📺 youtu.be/wQWhcLUPZWk?... @edrc-uk.bsky.social, @justcentre.bsky.social, @uomseed.bsky.social #PoliticalEconomy #Energy
Our unions are pushing back against a Labour politician that may try to change a status-quo that has been deeply harmful for workers - all to protect a few jobs in fossil sectors that we cannot afford to keep running because they are literally destroying the planet
Daniela Gabor@danielagabor.bsky.social · last mo.it was surprising to hear Unite's Sharon Graham criticize Ed Miliband's record as 'job destroying' climate activism. We hope she reconsiders, on a day where UK is under extreme heat warnings. The climate crisis is real, we need a Chancellor who fights it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The final Santa Marta outcome report just dropped, and it shows surging global momentum towards a fair phaseout of fossil fuels.
International support for a Fossil Fuel Treaty to manage a just transition is stronger than ever before. ⚡️
Massive thank you to everyone who attended our Launch Event yesterday! 🧡💡🧡 Thanks @nannetteyoussef.bsky.social & @peternewell.bsky.social for the excellent presentations! With Director @stefanb23.bsky.social Supported by: @uomseed.bsky.social @justcentre.bsky.social @edrc-uk.bsky.social
Can banning new oil exploration help solve one of climate policy's biggest dilemmas? A new blog by Renaud Coulomb, France d'Agrain and Fanny Henriet argues the answer is yes 🧵 www.sussex.ac.uk/research/pro...
The Case for Banning Oil Exploration
Renaud Coulomb, France d’Agrain, & Fanny Henriet argue that a universal ban on oil exploration could generate $12.5 trillion in global welfare gains.
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At last! A coherent plan for dealing with the perversity of fossil gas largely setting electricity prices, even though it supplies only 1/4 of our power. Stepping into the market like this offends the government's deepest instincts. But it needs to happen. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Households could save £200 on energy bills in plan to break link between gas and electricity prices, says thinktank
Government plan to de-link gas and electricity prices aims to reduce bills for consumers after global surge in prices
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How and why do some countries restrict their fossil fuel production? We explore this in @ripejournal.bsky.social, based on fieldwork in 🇩🇰Denmark, 🇬🇧the UK, 🇨🇴Colombia & 🇨🇷Costa Rica. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Co-authored with @peternewell.bsky.social, @freddiedaley.bsky.social, and Dani Soto.
Why do countries adopt supply-side policies? The international political economy of fossil fuel phaseouts
Ambitious goals to limit global heating cannot be achieved without significant efforts to cut fossil fuel production. Yet, comparative analysis of the international political economy dynamics that ...
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Why do countries adopt supply-side climate policies? Our latest paper on the political economy of fossil fuel phase outs @freddiedaley.bsky.social @lslothuus.bsky.social & Daniela Soto Hernández in @ripejournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Why do countries adopt supply-side policies? The international political economy of fossil fuel phaseouts
Ambitious goals to limit global heating cannot be achieved without significant efforts to cut fossil fuel production. Yet, comparative analysis of the international political economy dynamics that ...
tandfonline.com
Toronto Climate week starts Monday and the climate community has LOTS of work to do. The state of Canadian climate policy in Canada is worse than you think. 🧵
Great to be joined by @peternewell.bsky.social How can the world wean itself off fossil fuels? Where might we go next in advancing this critical agenda? 📆18 June 3pm. 👉https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pperc-launch-the-political-economies-of-fossil-fuel-phase-out-tickets-1987771170079
My interview with Pilita Clark in today’s Financial Times on the back story to the Santa Marta conference & beyond www.ft.com/content/b9a0...
The messy, chaotic and possibly quixotic quest to phase out fossil fuels
The inside story of a climate summit unlike any other
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5/ Finally, huge shoutout to @peternewell.bsky.social & @andrewsimms.bsky.social who wrote a paper sketching out a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty 6 years ago. Now their little idea is a political reality. Really inspiring example of engaged scholarship! FIN
Towards a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
A new approach is needed to tackle the climate crisis, in which the long overlooked supply-side of fossil fuels takes centre stage. A crucial aspect of this is the need for international agreements...
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There is a huge shift in climate politics happening RIGHT NOW in Santa Marta, Colombia. Countries are meeting to discuss a treaty to phase out fossil fuels -- the one issue that #UNFCCC has studiously avoided for 30 years. 🧵
Register for our book launch tomorrow @greshamcollege.bsky.social! Focusing on @peternewell.bsky.social latest book 'States of Transition', Newell, @paulinesophieh.bsky.social & @hannahhughes.bsky.social will discuss the role of the state in the green transition
States of Transition | 10th April 2026
An in-person & online book launch and conversation with Professor Peter Newell, author of 'States of Transition'.
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Hundreds of North Sea licences granted by Tories have ‘produced only 36 days of gas’ - Findings undermine on claims new drilling would help cut bills and boost energy security, researchers say #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Hundreds of North Sea licences granted by Conservatives have ‘so far produced only 36 days worth of gas’
Exclusive: Findings cast doubt on claims new drilling would help cut bills and boost energy security, researchers say
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Join the ISRF @greshamcollege.bsky.social on 10th April for the launch of 'States of Transition' by @peternewell.bsky.social . Peter will be in conversation with @paulinesophieh.bsky.social & @hannahhughes.bsky.social on the role of the state in the #greentransition
States of Transition | 10th April 2026
An in-person & online book launch and conversation with Professor Peter Newell, author of 'States of Transition'.
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Canadian politicians and pundits are leveraging Trump’s war with Iran to expand fossil fuel infrastructure. ❗️This is the shock doctrine in action❗️
Canada's Oil Industry Is Trying to Cash in on Iran War
Canadian politicians and pundits are leveraging Trump’s war with Iran to expand fossil fuel infrastructure.
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Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable. Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours. Strategic autonomy doesn’t arrive via summit communiqués. It’s built in advance — in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment
Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.
Achieving the UK’s climate goals costs less than the economic impact of one single oil shock - climate committee finds @suspol.bsky.social @fossiltreaty.bsky.social @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @oilchange.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’
Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits
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Great piece in @theconversation.com by @freddiedaley.bsky.social based on his recent article in Climate Policy How a grassroots UK campaign sparked a multi-billion-dollar exit from public fossil fuel finance @suspol.bsky.social @oilchange.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-a-grassr...
How a grassroots UK campaign sparked a multi-billion-dollar exit from public fossil fuel finance
It began with red paint at the UK Treasury, and ended in one of the most successful international climate initiatives.
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If more money is the answer to the climate crisis, what was the question? My essay in Environment & Planning A journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....
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Check out our new article "Power in Fossil Fuel Supply-Side Policy: Closing Down and Opening Up Opportunities to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Production" co-authored with @peternewell.bsky.social @freddiedaley.bsky.social and Daniela Soto Hernandez in @gepjournal.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
Power in Fossil Fuel Supply-Side Policy: Closing Down and Opening Up Opportunities to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Production
Abstract. Supply-side climate policy initiatives that restrict fossil fuel production are gathering momentum. A growing body of academic scholarship seeks to understand this new frontier in global cli...
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