Peter Newell (@peterjnewell_) 's Twitter Profile
Peter Newell

@peterjnewell_

Peter Newell is a Professor at the University of Sussex, where he researches, teaches and campaigns on climate change and energy issues in particular.

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Feargal Sharkey (@feargal_sharkey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"I was worth my six-figure bonus, says under-fire Thames Water boss." And now Thames Water 💧's customers will understand why their bills have just gone up 35%. news.sky.com/story/i-was-wo…

Sussex Global🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 (@sussexglobal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🌍Worried about #climatechange? Join our Climate Justice Summer School to tackle global inequality and the climate crisis whilst building transferable green skills! 📆 30 June – 18 July Gain alumni status and explore perks. Applications close 31 May👉tinyurl.com/2umw53uf

🌍Worried about #climatechange?

Join our Climate Justice Summer School to tackle
global inequality and the climate crisis whilst building
transferable green skills!

📆 30 June – 18 July

Gain alumni status and explore perks.

Applications close 31 May👉tinyurl.com/2umw53uf
Lukas Slothuus (@lslothuus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How do we move past fossil fuel production? Join our event with Susana Muhamad Susana Muhamad, recent Minister for Environment under Petro in Colombia. Responses by Peter Newell (@suspol) and Amiera Sawas (Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative) 3pm this Friday at LSE. Sign up: eventbrite.com/e/1372260551249

Ewan Gibbs (@ewangibbs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Good to see the energy price cap falling. We’re still being thoroughly ripped off though. Profiteers are raking it in on the back of a dysfunctional pricing system which ties the cost of electricity to gas, even when gas accounts for less and less of total generation.

Caroline Lucas (@carolinelucas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Loved speaking with amazing writer & activist Rebecca Solnit at Brighton Festival today: “Hope is an embrace of the unknown & unknowable…it’s the belief that what we do matters even tho how & when it may matter, who & what it may impact, are not things you can know beforehand”

Loved speaking with amazing writer &amp; activist Rebecca Solnit at <a href="/brightfest/">Brighton Festival</a> today: “Hope is an embrace of the unknown &amp; unknowable…it’s the belief that what we do matters even tho how &amp; when it may matter, who &amp; what it may impact, are not things you can know beforehand”
Peter Newell (@peterjnewell_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

From coal exit to controls on export finance & oil & gas licenses in the north sea, my deep dive into 'The political economy of supply-side climate policy in the UK' with Freddie in Environmental Politics from our @suspol research Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative Sussex Global🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@suspol (@sus_pol) 's Twitter Profile Photo

⚠️ NEW PAPER ⚠️ Peter Newell and Freddie have a new piece out in Environmental Politics on the politics of phasing out fossil fuels in the UK🇬🇧 and what it means for climate policy ambition globally🧵 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

⚠️ NEW PAPER ⚠️

<a href="/PeterJNewell_/">Peter Newell</a> and <a href="/Fred_Daley/">Freddie</a> have a new piece out in <a href="/Env_Pol/">Environmental Politics</a> on the politics of phasing out fossil fuels in the UK🇬🇧 and what it means for climate policy ambition globally🧵

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Oceana UK (@oceanauk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING 📢 The Government's own MPs and many others across parties call for a BAN on destructive bottom-trawl fishing in offshore marine protected areas🪸 This intervention from the Environmental Audit Committee shows that pressure is building 💥💥💥 theguardian.com/environment/20…

Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative (@fossiltreaty) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🔊 HUGE NEWS! In a powerful convergence of music, activism, and leadership, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham , and the British trip hop collective Massive Attack signed a declaration and opened a Treaty banner on the solarised rooftop of the Greater Manchester

Center for International Environmental Law (@ciel_tweets) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📣 CIEL and partners are in Nice, France, ahead of the United Nations Ocean Conference to demand that governments protect our #ocean from the growing threat of #FossilFuels. 🧵👇 Read on to discover the events driving the call for a #FossilFreeOcean, starting TOMORROW, June 7–12.

📣 CIEL and partners are in Nice, France, ahead of the <a href="/UN/">United Nations</a> Ocean Conference to demand that governments protect our #ocean from the growing threat of #FossilFuels.

🧵👇 Read on to discover the events driving the call for a #FossilFreeOcean, starting TOMORROW, June 7–12.
Parliamentarians for a Fossil-Free Future (@parlfossilfree) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We urge Presidents Emmanuel Macron & Rodrigo Chaves at #UNOC2025 to back a #FossilFuelNonProliferationTreaty to safeguard our oceans 🌊 ⚠️ Full letter here: fossilfuelfreefuture.org/news/parliamen… Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative #FossilFreeFuture #OceanJustice

Center for International Environmental Law (@ciel_tweets) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🌊#UNOC3 started TODAY. But the call for a #FossilFreeOcean echoed all weekend in Nice with a protest gathering Indigenous People of the Amazon, fisherfolk from the Caribbean, and others fighting for greater ocean protection. 🧵👇Read on for more highlights and what's to come!

🌊#UNOC3 started TODAY. But the call for a #FossilFreeOcean echoed all weekend in Nice with a protest gathering Indigenous People of the Amazon, fisherfolk from the Caribbean, and others fighting for greater ocean protection.

🧵👇Read on for more highlights and what's to come!
Caroline Lucas (@carolinelucas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New nuclear “renaissance” may well turn out to be like last frail one due to a set of inconvenient truths: new nuclear builds are vastly over-cost & over-time; all SMRs are only in design stage, & waste, proliferation & siting problems are all unresolved👇 theguardian.com/environment/20…

@suspol (@sus_pol) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🌍 Phasing out fossil fuels is essential - but what if governments get sued for it? A new @SUS_POL blog from IISD Energy explores a crucial question for climate action. How can countries move away from fossil fuels without triggering costly investor lawsuits? 🧵

🌍 Phasing out fossil fuels is essential - but what if governments get sued for it?

A new @SUS_POL blog from <a href="/IISD_Energy/">IISD Energy</a> explores a crucial question for climate action. How can countries move away from fossil fuels without triggering costly investor lawsuits?

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