Scholars
Guy Finkill
Tyndall Centre, University of Manchester
Based in
Sweden
Europe
Guy has been a consultant researcher at UNCTAD, mapping finance flows and the use of bonds in the petrochemical industry. Guy has two years of research experience at Lund University’s Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) and their department of Political Science (SVET). Guy also worked at Uppsala University’s Centre for Environment and Development Studies (CEMUS), coordinating three Bachelor-level courses.
Country(ies) of Specialty
Sweden United KingdomFocus areas of expertise
Greenwashing Climate policy and politics Geoengineering Net ZeroHow to Connect
Publications
Articles
Finkill, Guy, et al. “Reconfiguring industry in the United Kingdom. Global lessons for ambition versus policy on the path towards net-zero.” Energy Policy 207 (2025): 114832.
Tilsted, Joachim Peter, et al. “Petrochemical transition narratives: Selling fossil fuel solutions in a decarbonizing world.” Energy Research & Social Science 94 (2022): 102880.
Skovgaard, Jakob, et al. “Finance for fossils–The role of public financing in expanding petrochemicals.” Global Environmental Change 80 (2023): 102657.
Bauer, Fredric, et al. Petrochemicals and climate change: Tracing globally growing emissions and key blind spots in a fossil-based industry. Lund University, 2022.
Bauer, Fredric, et al. Petrochemicals and climate change: Powerful fossil fuel lock-ins and interventions for transformative change. Environmental and Energy Systems Studies, Lund university, 2023.
Finkill, Guy, and Diana Barrowclough. “Green finance and decarbonization of petrochemicals:: Slim pickings in a crucial but hard-to-abate industry.” United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 2023.
Finkill, Guy, and Diana Barrowclough. “Banks, bonds and petrochemicals: Greening the path from the Copenhagen Agreement, through Covid and beyond.” (2021).