by admin | Sep 20, 2019 | General, Media, Reports and briefings
The generation who have forced the climate crisis onto the political agenda want your support for a Green New Deal Published to coincide with the launch of the Green New Deal Bill, set down by MPs Caroline Lucas and Clive Lewis, this new report by the Green New Deal...
by Ruth Potts | Sep 20, 2019 | General, Media
As thousands gather for what is expected to be the UK’s biggest climate demonstration yet, MPs Caroline Lucas and Clive Lewis have launched the first legislative attempt to introduce a Green New Deal Bill in Parliament. The Bill aims to transform the...
by Ann Pettifor | Sep 17, 2019 | General
This article was originally published in The Guardian In September 2007, as credit was “crunched” and the financial crisis began to unfold, a group of economists and environmentalists, including the future Green party MP Caroline Lucas, met regularly in my small...
by Andrew Simms | Sep 14, 2019 | Media, Other coverage
Something is killing conventional economics and it’s probably an inside job. Reliance on abstract mathematics and absurd assumptions has brought the discipline into disrepute, even if politics and policy are still guided by the ghosts of its teaching. Nobody was...
by Ann Pettifor | Aug 21, 2019 | Media, Other coverage
Published on 17th September 2019, by Verso, Green New Deal Group member Ann Pettifor’s book, The Case for the Green New Deal, explains what the Green New Deal is and, most importantly, shows how we can pay for it. Critics have claimed that the Green New Deal is...
by Andrew Simms | Jul 25, 2019 | General
Protestors call for a Green New Deal in 2008 The Urbanist podcast talked to Green New Deal Group member Andrew Simms about origins of the Group, their 2008 report, the challenges that inspired it and the principles that underpin it. Andrew explores the way it is...
by Colin Hines | Jul 19, 2019 | Media, Other coverage
Writing for Brave New Europe Colin Hines explores ideas for kick-starting a Green New Deal where it is needed most. When it became evident that Brexit day would be shifted from April Fools Day to Halloween, the Brexit fog lifted just long enough to allow David...
by Ann Pettifor | Jun 11, 2019 | Media, Other coverage
Writing for the Progressive Economy Forum, Ann Pettifor argues that if we are to survive earth systems breakdown, we must begin by transforming the Treasury and removing the politicians that threaten the futures of today’s younger generations It took a child, Greta...
by Colin Hines | May 14, 2019 | Media, Other coverage
This letter was published in the Guardian on 14 May 2019: Your editorial (13 May) correctly states that Britain needs a Green New Deal now, and indeed in your letters page last autumn (10 September) our report detailing what form such a “jobs in every...
by Colin Hines | May 7, 2019 | Media, Other coverage
Colin Hines had this letter in the Financial Times on 4 May 2019: Your editorial “Enter the age of activism on climate change”, April 27) correctly welcomes the passing of the intergenerational baton from Sir David Attenborough to Greta Thunberg. However, to result in...
