Peter Newell

Peter Newell is a Professor of International Development at the University of East Anglia. He is specialist in the political economy of environment and development.

As COP26 nears, why is the UK giving a tax break to fossil fuel companies?

The new ‘super deduction’ incentivises further extraction at a time when we should be pivoting away from fossil fuels

By Peter Newell, Andrew Simms and Freddie Daley

/ 16 Mar 2021

As COP26 nears, why is the UK giving a tax break to fossil fuel companies?

Keeping the corporation honest in Visakhapatnam, India

When legal-constitutional guarantees fail, public hearings may be the only option available to those who have paid the price for India's rapid economic growth.

By Peter Newell

/ 16 Dec 2009