by admin | Dec 7, 2009 | Reports and briefings
The cuts won’t work, the Green New Deal Group’s second report shows how, contrary to the policy of all the major political parties, cutting public spending now will tip the nation into a deeper recession by increasing unemployment, reducing the tax received and...
by Andrew Simms | Jul 4, 2009 | Media, Other coverage
Selected press coverage of the Green New Deal in 2009: August The Ecologist: Bailed-out banks should fund the Green New DealThe Star: Sheffield’s green initiatives praised by author Colin Hines July BBC Newsnight: Plant closure leaves green energy plans twisting...
by admin | Apr 22, 2009 | General
Colin Hines, Convenor Green New Deal Group: “The Budget should encourage private savers and pension funds to augment government funding of a Green New Deal. The government should urge local authorities to issue bonds that pension funds and others could invest...
by admin | Apr 2, 2009 | Reports and briefings
Gordon Brown has claimed that around 10 per cent of the UK package to stimulate the economy was directed towards “environmentally important technologies”. But as a new report from Green New Deal publisher nef (the new economics foundation) shows,...
by admin | Mar 26, 2009 | Events
Gordon Brown has been calling for a ‘global Green New Deal’, but so far he has done little to put his words into effect. As renewable energy projects are forced to close through lack of funding and millions of people face unemployment, the need for a...
