Professor Peter Newell from Sussex University’s Centre for Global Political Economy talks to RTCC about the importance of sending the right signals to the private sector to invest in low carbon technologies. He talks about the positive impact a new global deal on climate change would have in not only sending the green light to the public sector but in driving the right national policies including carbon markets, removing fossil fuel subsidies and offering incentives for renewables.

He warns that any new framework would still have to ensure that help goes to the world’s poorest communities to ensure they too gain access to sustainable energy.