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The SUS-POL research programme @SussexGlobal @SussexUni is exploring a radical new approach to climate governance: one that centres fossil fuel production.
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Joined September 2023
Cambodia becomes the 18th nation to join the @fossiltreaty at #COP30 in Belém Their participation signals building momentum for the Fossil Fuel Treaty and charts a bold path into the second week of the COP and beyond, towards a fossil free future https://t.co/Vb7xxt8LAd
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New IDS bulletin on Struggles for Justice in the Energy Transition: Views from the Front Lines. Cases from colleagues in Mozambique, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, US & UK. Dive in! @IDS_UK @sus_pol @SPRU
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The articles in this IDS Bulletin highlight cases of advocacy being used to strengthen community voices to make the processes of consultation more inclusive and empowering of marginalised perspecti...
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My first academic journal article, 'The Chinese road to decarbonisation: China’s party-state capitalism in the political economy of fossil energy phase-out' is published online today at @RIPEJournal! Its open access, so pls do read & share thoughts 🇨🇳 https://t.co/maMUWGPWK4
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BREAKING! 🚨 📢We’ve taken over the @TfL ad space at Southwark tube station, calling on the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to end adverts that promote pollution. ✍️ Join the campaign: https://t.co/qBcJlRYF41
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We are delighted to announce that @CarolineLucas is joining Sussex University as Professor of Practice in Environmental Sustainability to work with me and my colleagues in the School of Progressive Futures on research, teaching & civic engagement
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Caroline Lucas has been appointed by the University of Sussex as its first Professor of Practice in Environmental Sustainability.
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New book just out. Thanks to @CarolineLucas @ProfJohnBarry & Jennifer Clapp for their endorsements of States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society published by @cambridgeunipa @SussexGlobal @sus_pol
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Brilliant piece from @PeterJNewell_ & @Fred_Daley on why we must resist seductively simple proposal to build renewables & delay fossil fuel phase out. It’s a hugely dangerous gamble on a “later” that a warming world may not grant us. Fossil fuels must be phased out *now* 👇
🛢️We cannot lose sight of phasing out fossil fuels. @Fred_Daley and @PeterJNewell_ have a piece in @TheNatlInterest pushing back on the “build now, break later” mantra in the energy transition. https://t.co/NoOxdgFYmG A short thread on why that approach is risky 👇
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🛢️We cannot lose sight of phasing out fossil fuels. @Fred_Daley and @PeterJNewell_ have a piece in @TheNatlInterest pushing back on the “build now, break later” mantra in the energy transition. https://t.co/NoOxdgFYmG A short thread on why that approach is risky 👇
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Building clean energy is essential. But so is the deliberate, managed decline of fossil fuels. Without both, the transition risks becoming an expansion, not a transformation. 🔗Read the full piece here:
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5️⃣ A just transition depends on workers. People in fossil fuel sectors need real, supported pathways into the low-carbon economy. They’re the ones who will build the new system, not be left behind by it.
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4️⃣ There are opportunities in managed decline. Decommissioning creates jobs, innovation, and regional renewal. Building this capacity alongside renewables makes economic and climate sense.
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3️⃣ Breaking fossil fuel systems takes time. These infrastructures are massive, global, and built for endless growth, not decline. The work of dismantling them must begin now, not “later.”
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2️⃣ You can’t skip the fight. “Build now, break later” dodges the confrontation with fossil fuel incumbents. These firms are resisting transition, protecting profits, and keeping economies hooked on coal, oil and gas. They won’t give up power willingly - they must be pushed.
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1️⃣ Renewables are adding, not replacing. Global energy demand keeps rising. Clean energy is expanding the mix, but fossil fuel use is still increasing. To meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, renewables must displace fossil fuels, not just add to them.
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“Build now, break later” means scaling up renewables first and only later dismantling fossil fuel systems. But delaying phase-out is a dangerous gamble - on a “later” that a warming world may not grant us.
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🛢️We cannot lose sight of phasing out fossil fuels. @Fred_Daley and @PeterJNewell_ have a piece in @TheNatlInterest pushing back on the “build now, break later” mantra in the energy transition. https://t.co/NoOxdgFYmG A short thread on why that approach is risky 👇
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New paper alert! Decline by design: Assessing decline policies as a decarbonisation strategy under the Paris Agreement | PLOS One. @gregtrencher @sus_pol @SussexGlobal @SPRU @IISD_Energy @SEIclimate
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Limiting climate change to targets set under the Paris Agreement requires urgent action to reduce the production and use of carbon-intensive technologies, fuels, materials and industrial processes....
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New piece on @sus_pol on squaring development with future fossil fuel extraction 👇
How can the Global South pursue its right to development while leaving fossil fuels underground? A fascinating new blog by Heras, Rammelt & Gupta (U. of Amsterdam) outlining their recent study explores this dilemma.🧵 https://t.co/LPeG2iNLKN
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Brazilian government sabotages COP30 and licenses oil in Amazon waters; NGOs go to Court https://t.co/r5NZPLh3ow
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Environmental agency greenlights the drilling of Block 59 just over two weeks before the start of the climate conference, undermining Lula's leadership and exposing the COP presidency
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👉 Check out the blog here: https://t.co/LPeG2iNLKN 👉 And the full paper here:
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The Global South is home to 78% of unburnable reserves, which raises urgent questions of equity, justice and the right to development.
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