by Ruth Potts | Mar 19, 2020 | Resilient response, Step Change
Writing for the New Weather Institute Lindsay Mackie and Green New Deal Group member Andrew Simms explore how crises reveal fundamental flaws in underlying political and economic models and call for a new approach It looks like it’s going to be a national emergency,...
by Richard Murphy | Mar 18, 2020 | Step Change
Writing for his Tax Research blog, Green New Deal member Richard Murphy sets out a plan for the economic crisis triggered by coronavirus: It is possible for the UK to survive the economic crisis caused by coronavirus. However, that requires a plan and right now the...
by Colin Hines | Mar 13, 2020 | General, Step Change
Writing for Brave New Europe, Green New Deal Group member Colin Hines makes the case for medium term efforts to tackle coronavirus to act as a ‘green bridge’ for tackling climate change. One thing rarely mentioned in the wall to wall coverage of the...
by admin | Mar 4, 2020 | Media, Other coverage, Press releases
A cross-party letter, initiated Green New Deal Group members Caroline Lucas MP and Clive Lewis MP, calls on the Chancellor to use next week’s budget to show real leadership on climate. The letter, signed by MPs and peers from the Green Party, Labour Party, Liberal...
by admin | Mar 4, 2020 | Reports and briefings
A Green New Deal Group briefing, The Green New Deal: Securing the Future, was sent to the Chancellor ahead of the March 2020 budget, with a letter signed by MPs from all the main opposition parties. As the briefing, written by Green New Deal Group member Richard...
by Andrew Simms | Feb 27, 2020 | General, Media, Other coverage
Writing for the Rapid Transition Alliance, Green New Deal Group member Andrew Simms explores the switch from ‘town gas’ to ‘natural gas’ to see what lessons we might learn for transforming our homes with a Green New Deal to meet the challenges...
by Richard Murphy | Feb 27, 2020 | General, Media, Other coverage
Writing for his Tax Research blog, Green New Deal Group member Richard Murphy welcomes the findings of the 2070 Commission report, Make No Little Plans: Acting At Scale For a Fairer and Stronger Future, and argues that the Green New Deal would enable us to decarbonise...
by Andrew Simms | Feb 11, 2020 | General
As Boris Johnson bolts on a few buses and cycle lanes to sweeten the pill of the vastly expensive HS2 rail project, the first phase of which is unlikely to open for over a decade, many are waking up to the need for much faster action on the climate emergency. But,...
by Richard Murphy | Jan 28, 2020 | General, Other coverage
The Guardian reported the pledge by one of the UK’s largest supermarkets to go carbon neutral by 2040, but the headline doesn’t tell the full story. This is how the Guardian reported the announcement: Sainsbury’s has pledged to spend £1bn to...
by Colin Hines | Jan 18, 2020 | Other coverage
Rebecca Long-Bailey, like all Labour’s leadership candidates, emphasises democratic movement-building as a precursor for change (Giving power to the people is Labour’s path back to power, Journal, 17 January). But this approach will inevitably involve the few but not...
