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Dr Fergus Green

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Lecturer in Political Theory & Public Policy
Room: 3.01, 31 Tavistock Square
Email: fergus.green@ucl.ac.uk

Biography

I am a Lecturer in Political Theory and Public Policy in the 新香港六合彩开奖结果Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy. Much of my research is concerned with the politics, governance and ethics of low-carbon transitions. My academic work builds on more than five years鈥櫬爌rofessional experience in law and public policy, and I continue to undertake consultancy work in these areas.

I began my career as a lawyer in the Melbourne office of Allens Arthur Robinson (now Allens-Linklaters) from 2009 to 2012, where I specialised in climate change, energy, water and environmental regulation. I then spent seven years at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) in various capacities: I obtained an MSc in Philosophy & Public Policy from the Department of Philosophy (2012-13); I was then a Policy Analyst and Research Advisor to Professor Nicholas Stern at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment (2014-15); and finally I completed an MRes in Political Science and a PhD in Political Theory in the Department of Government (2015-19). From 2019 to 2021, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Fair Limits Project at the Ethics Institute, Utrecht University, and spent a brief stint back at the Grantham Research Institute in mid-2021 before taking up my current position at UCL. I have also been a visiting researcher at Melbourne Law School and Melbourne Climate Futures.

Research

My research traverses political theory, political economy, public policy and law.聽

My current work focuses on questions of justice, politics and governance that arise in the transition to a low-carbon economy, including what we owe the 鈥榣osers鈥� from such transitions, the kinds of institutions and policies by which states can steer a 鈥榡ust transition鈥�, and the political implications of such policies. This work has been published in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Political Philosophy, and Climate Policy. I am also completing a book project provisionally entitled Justice in Transition: What We Owe the 鈥楲osers鈥� from Legal Change. Further research in this area is being progressed through two collaborative research grants in which I am a Co-Investigator: 鈥樷�� (2022-26); and 鈥樷�� (2020-23). 聽

In neighbouring work, I have written widely on the politics and governance of restricting and phasing out fossil fuels, including on 鈥渁nti-fossil fuel norms鈥�, the case for supply-side climate policy, fossil fuel-based accountability frameworks for climate governance, and the need for a norm against new fossil fuel projects. This work has been published in journals including Science, Nature Climate Change, Climatic Change, and Global Environmental Politics. As a result of this work, I have been a co-author of three editions of the UN Environment Programme鈥檚 Fossil Fuel Production Gap Report, and am a member of the Just Transition Expert Group of the Powering Past Coal Alliance.

I am also interested in the linkages between climate change and other contemporary challenges, including not only other ecological crises but also socio-economic inequalities, and the rise of populism. I am undertaking related theoretical work to develop a paradigm of climate governance concerned with the shared structural causes of these challenges (as opposed to the currently-dominant, much narrower climate governance paradigm focused on greenhouse gas emissions), and in that vein I am researching Green New Deal-style policy programmes. This line of research builds on my longstanding interest in the ways in which decarbonisation policies, far from being a 鈥渂urden鈥�, can provide a basis for building more equal, prosperous and sustainable societies.

Selected publications

Journal articles
  • Green F., Bois von Kursk, O., Muttitt, G. and Pye, S. (2024) 'No new fossil fuel projects: The norm we need', Science,
  • Bolet, D., Green F. and Gonz谩lez-Eguino, M. (2023) ', American Political Science Review, doi:10.1017/S0003055423001235.
  • Green, F. and Kuch, D. (2022) 鈥樷��,听Global Environmental Politics, 22(4), pp.聽48鈥�69.
  • Green, F. and van Asselt, H. (2022) 鈥樷��, WIREs Climate Change, 14(3), e816.
  • Green, F. (2022) 鈥樷��,听Climate Policy, 22(9-10), pp. 1356鈥�1362.
  • Green, F. and Healy, N. (2022) 鈥樷��,听One Earth,聽5(6), pp.聽635鈥�649.
  • Green, F. and Robeyns, I. (2022) 鈥樷��, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, 91(A Philosophers鈥� Manifesto: Ideas and Arguments to Change the World), pp. 53鈥�80.
  • Green, F. (2021) 鈥樷��,听Philosophy Compass,聽16(6), e12740.
  • Green, F. and Brandstedt, E. (2021) 鈥樷��, Journal of Political Philosophy,聽29(4), pp. 539鈥�563.
  • Green, F. (2020) 鈥樷��,听Journal of Political Philosophy, 28(4), pp.聽397鈥�420.
  • Green, F. and Gambhir, A. (2020) 鈥樷��,听Climate Policy, 20(8), pp.聽902鈥�921.
  • Green, F. (2018) 鈥樷��, Nature Climate Change, 8, pp.聽449鈥�451.
  • Green, F. and Denniss, R. (2018) 鈥樷��,听Climatic Change, 150, pp. 73鈥�87.
  • Green, F. (2018) 鈥樷��,听Climatic Change, 150, pp. 103鈥�116.

  • Green, F. and Stern, N. (2017) 鈥樷��,听Climate Policy, 17(4), pp. 423鈥�442.

Book chapters
  • Green, F. (2017) 鈥樷��,听in A. Averchenkova, S. Fankhauser and聽M. Nachmany (eds.)聽Trends in Climate Change Legislation. London: Edward Elgar, pp. 85鈥�107 (pre-publication version).聽
Policy publications

Teaching

I teach on the 鈥樷�� (POLS0063) and 鈥樷�� (POLS0101) undergraduate modules. The latter is a new module I designed and developed, for which I received a departmental and Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences Education Award (sustainability category).

I am interested in supervising research students on contemporary political theory (especially the normative analysis of public policy), and on the politics and governance of climate change and low-carbon transitions.