Peter Newell is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex. He is a specialist in the politics and political economy of environment and development. For more than 25 years he has conducted research, consultancy and advisory work on issues of climate change and energy, agricultural biotechnology, corporate accountability and trade policy working in a number of countries including Argentina, Brazil, China, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Mexico and South Africa. In recent years his research has mainly focussed on the political economy of carbon markets and low carbon energy transitions.

In our ETROD Online Dialog he will talk about "Landscapes of (in)justice: reflecting on voices, spaces and alliances for just transition". To prepare the discussion, we ask you to read Peter’s paper:
https://www.ids.ac.uk/publications/landscapes-of-injustice-reflecting-on-voices-spaces-and-alliances-for-just-transition/ 

This paper explores what can be learned from emergent practice around contestations over just transitions and relevant examples of previous experience of citizen attempts to centre justice issues in resource politics. Are there key insights that might inform contemporary efforts to ensure that energy transitions are just transitions? In order to identify insights from these experiences and struggles as they might pertain to contemporary attempts to ensure transitions are more socially just,  we explore a broad body of work on (i) just transitions, energy justice and energy transitions (ii) contentious resource politics and attempts to democratise them, and (iii) social movement struggles for justice. We focus, in particular, on issues of voice (representation), spaces (for participation) and alliances (for change).

To join us online, please use the following link:
https://uni-frankfurt.zoom-x.de/j/65020988539?pwd=Wlc2WGdSVXRQOW1PWEl2Q1YyV0d2dz09 
 

Meeting-ID: 650 2098 8539
Kenncode: 639066

For further information please visit the ZIRS website or send an email to etrod@zirs.uni-halle.de.