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Commentary

‘Moment of truth’ to act on climate says UN’s Guterres

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned today that the planet is waging a “suicidal” war on the natural world. We are facing a ‘moment of...

By Peter Newell on 2 December 2020
Clean energy

Resource

Book: The Politics of Green Transformations

Book published in 2015 that explores how 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' green transformations work, and the roles played by different kinds of alliances among...

Posted on 20 January 2015

Resource

Climate and development: A tale of two crises

The project of development is very much implicated in the production of climate change, as well as how it has been managed to date. But can the development...

By Peter Newell on 21 March 2019

Commentary

Fossil fuel disarmament

Three years ago, on 7 July 2017, something quite remarkable happened. After decades of trying to get the nuclear powers to fulfil their commitments under...

By Peter Newell and Andrew Simms on 7 July 2020
Clean energy

Commentary

How can we get an international agreement to leave fossil fuels in the ground?

A new open access journal article by international environmental lawyer Harro van Asselt and the Alliance’s Peter Newell explores diplomatic and legal...

By Peter Newell and Harro van Asselt on 4 August 2022

Report

How did we do that? The possibility of rapid transition

A booklet which collects stories of rapid transitions to show what we can learn from history and the present day about how people adapt to rapid change.

By Andrew Simms and Peter Newell on 24 April 2017
Clean energy, Better homes, Decent work, Digital progress, Efficient travel, Enough money, Good food, Liveable cities, Secure rights

Resource

Journal article: the business of rapid transition

As long as there have been attempts to develop policy on climate change at national, regional and international levels, businesses have been involved in...

By Peter Newell on 27 July 2020
Decent work, Enough money, Digital progress

Commentary

Life, but not as we know it

Amid the fear, uncertainty and personal loss that surround the current Covid-19 pandemic, people are starting to think about what form a ‘just recovery’...

By Peter Newell on 1 April 2020

Commentary

Squaring urgency and equity in the just transition debate

Is it possible to accelerate transitions in inclusive ways? Can rapidity be squared with attending to questions of equity and social justice? The question...

By Peter Newell on 25 October 2018
Secure rights
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