by Ruth Potts | Nov 11, 2019 | General
This election must deliver a Green New Deal. The challenge is clear. We need a plan ambitious enough to tackle climate breakdown at the scale and speed set out by science. We need a plan to create a fair society that works for everyone and involves us all. This...
by Caroline Lucas | Oct 22, 2019 | General, Media
Writing in a new collection of essays published by IPPR and WWF, Green New Deal member Caroline Lucas, writing with Ed Miliband and Laura Sandys, makes the case for the need for a clear vision at the heart of the Green New Deal. With climate emergencies declared...
by Colin Hines | Oct 8, 2019 | General, Media
Support has been surging on both sides of the Atlantic for the idea of a Green New Deal. Time to turn it into action, and jobs, on the ground. The huge increase in support for a Green New Deal in Europe and the United States has led many groups, old and new,...
by Ann Pettifor | Oct 3, 2019 | General, History, Media
Journalist Hettie O’Brien, interviewed Green New Deal Group member Ann Pettifor on the history and trajectory of the Green New Deal for The New Statesman. The Staggers, 24 September 2019 Eleven years ago, a group of economists and green thinkers sketched a...
by Caroline Lucas | Sep 20, 2019 | General, Media, Other coverage
Writing in the Guardian, on Friday 20th September, Green MP, Caroline Lucas, explains the Green New Deal Bill, the first attempt to legislate for the Green New Deal in the UK, tabled by Caroline and the Labour MP, Clive Lewis. Caroline Lucas MP, speaking at the Youth...
by Ruth Potts | Sep 20, 2019 | Reports and briefings
The Green New Deal: A bill to make it happen, a new report published to coincide with the publication of the draft Green New Deal Bill by Caroline Lucas and Clive Lewis MP explains how the Green New Deal would be financed and the changes it would make to almost every...
by admin | Sep 20, 2019 | General, Media
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...
