John Barry is Professor of Green Political Economy in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queens University Belfast. His areas of research include green moral and political theory; green, post-growth and heterodox political economy; the politics, policy and political economy of climate breakdown and low carbon energy transitions; normative aspects of environmental and sustainable development politics and policy; action and engaged research; the greening of citizenship and civic republicanism. His books include, Rethinking Green Politics: Nature, Virtue and Progress (1999); Environment and Social Theory, 2nd edition, (2007); and Citizenship, Sustainability and Environmental Research (2000). His co-edited books include The International Encyclopaedia of Environmental Politics (2001), Sustaining Liberal Democracy (2002); Europe, Globalisation and Sustainability (2004), The Nation-State and the Global Ecological Crisis (2005), Contemporary Environmental Politics (2006), Global Ecological Politics ((2011), and Environmental Philosophy: The Art of Living in a World of Limits (2013). His latest book is The Politics of Actually Existing Unsustainability: Human Flourishing in a Climate-Changed, Carbon-Constrained World (2012, Oxford University Press) - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-politics-of-actually-existing-unsustainability-9780199695393?cc=gb&lang=en& He is currently working on a book provisionally entitled ‘The Story of Unsustainable Growth: Understanding Economic Growth as Ideology, Myth and Religion’. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280489369_What's_the_Story_with_Unsustainable_Economic_Growth_Understanding_Economic_Growth_as_Ideology_Myth_Religion_and_Cultural_Meme Barry is the Belfast lead for the 5 year ESRC funded ‘Place Based Climate Action Network’ (PCAN) (2019-2023); a central element of which will be the establishing Belfast City Energy Transition and Climate Commission, which will have a strong Just Transition focus. Barry is leader of a Work Package entitled ‘Understanding Consumer Behaviour and a ‘Just Transition’ beyond Plastic Waste’ as part of an 18 month (April 2019-Sept 2020) UKRI funded ‘Advancing Creative Circular Economies for Plastics via Technological-Social Transitions’ (ACCEPT Transitions) project; Barry is leader of a Work Package entitled as part of the 5 year Prosperity Partnerships 2 funded project (2019-2023) ‘StreetZero: Roadmaps to Zero Net Emissions in Urban Public Transport’. Barry’s WP includes 2 PhD studentship one of which will be on ’ A ‘Just Transition’ of Public Transport Systems He is a former co-editor of the journal Environmental Politics and a member of its Advisory Board. He is a director /board member of Sustainable Northern Ireland, Training for Women Network and Green Foundation Ireland.