Climate justice

ABSTRACT

In this short concept note I briefly contextualise the origins and evolution of the term climate justice, relating it to ongoing shifts in the world of climate politics before exploring connections to current debates in agrarian studies to illustrate the significant scope both for understanding agrarian struggles through the lens of climate justice, but also how insights from agrarian studies can enrich understandings and practices of climate justice.

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Peter Newell

Peter Newell is a professor of international relations at the University of Sussex. He has worked on the politics of climate change and broader issues of sustainability for over 25 years. His research focuses on the global political economy of climate change and energy, including work on energy transitions and carbon markets. He has worked at the universities of Sussex, Oxford, Warwick and East Anglia and FLACSO Argentina. He is co-founder and research director of the Rapid Transition Alliance and has also worked for NGOs such as Friends of the Earth and Climate Network Europe, is a member of the board of directors of Greenpeace UK and sits on the advisory board of the green think tank Greenhouse. He is author and co-author of numerous books on environmental politics including Climate for Change; The Effectiveness of EU Environmental Policy; Governing Climate Change; Climate Capitalism; Globalization and the Environment; Transnational Climate Change Governance; Global Green Politics; and Power Shift: The Global Political Economy of Energy Transitions.