Seminar, 2 March 2010: Peter Newell

Governing clean development

Part of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy’s 2009-2010 Seminar Series at the University of Leeds.

Speaker: Professor Peter Newell, Professor of International Development, University of East Anglia
Chair: Professor Andy Gouldson, Director, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy
Time: 5-6pm, Tuesday 2nd March 2010
Venue: Geography East Lecture Theatre, G23

Peter Newell is Professor of International Development at the University of East Anglia and currently holds an ESRC Climate Change Leadership Fellow to work on The Governance of Clean Development. Prior to this he has held posts as James Martin Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment, Principal Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization, University of Warwick, Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies University of Sussex, associate researcher at FLACSO Argentina and researcher and lobbyist for Climate Network Europe in Brussels.

He has worked on climate change issues for over 16 years and conducted research and policy work for the governments of the UK, Sweden and Finland as well as international organisations such as UNDP and GEF. He climate related publications include Climate for Change: Non State Actors and the Global Politics of the Greenhouse (CUP, 2000) The Effectiveness of EU Environmental Policy (with Wyn Grant and Duncan Matthews, MacMillan, 2000) The Business of Global Environmental Governance (with David Levy, MIT Press, 2005) Climate Capitalism (with Matthew Paterson, CUP, 2010) and Governing Climate Change (with Harriet Bulkeley Routledge, 2010).