Peter Newell is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex. His current research interests lie in the political economy of climate change, especially in relation to carbon markets, ideas about a 'just transition' to a lower carbon economy and the governance of North-South clean-energy investment. He is co-author of the following books (amongst others): Climate Capitalism: Global Warming and the Transformation of the Global Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2010, with Matthew Paterson), Governing Climate Change (2010, with Harriet Bulkeley) and Globalization and the Environment: Capitalism, Ecology and Power (2012).