Climate expert Peter Newell visits the Department

University of Sussex Professor Peter Newell visited the Department of Political Science 17-18 March as Distinguished Visiting Speaker. He led a faculty and graduate student seminar on the political economies of fossil fuel phase-out.  Professor Newell discussed the SUS-POL project, which aims to identify the political, economic, cultural, and social conditions and processes that give rise to, and help to spread, policies that seek to limit fossil fuel production and ensure that reserves remain in the ground.

Professor Newell also delivered a public lecture on his latest book, States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society. An interdisciplinary audience from the McMaster Centre for Climate Change, Engineering, Globalization Studies, Health Policy, Political Science and members of the community reflected on the various roles the state can play in facilitating a green transition.

Students at the graduate and undergraduate levels also benefited from interacting with Professor Newell as he led a session in the graduate class Political Economy of Global Climate Change course and delivered a lecture in the undergraduate course Global Political Economy.