by Richard | Apr 1, 2019 | General
Since it was founded in the UK in 2007, the Green New Deal (GND) programme for reducing climate emissions and transforming our economy has gone global. The GND founding group are looking for an experienced and passionate researcher, with excellent people and political...
by Richard | Mar 30, 2019 | General
This post by Colin Hines was on Brave New Europe on 29 March 2019: Some History Shortly before the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 a group of UK environmentalists and economists published the first ‘Green New Deal’ report https://www.greennewdealgroup.org/. This...
by Richard | Jan 31, 2019 | General
Larry Elliott had an article under the above title in the Guardian on 31 January 2019. As he noted: Full disclosure here: I was a founder member of the UK Green New Deal Group in 2007 and have been banging on about the idea – with almost zero impact – ever since....
by Richard | Jan 4, 2019 | General
From The Guardian on 4 January 2019: Let’s make 2019 the year of a green new deal Richard Murphy and Colin Hines suggest a number of ways that revenue could be raised to fund energy efficiency in all buildings, renewables and local transport systems The counter to...
by Richard | Dec 7, 2018 | General
This letter was in the Guardian on 7 December 2018: Your editorial’s revelation (6 December) that the 2014-16 carbon reductions were the result of an economic slowdown that helped fuel the rise of populism appears daunting for future climate-change initiatives....
by Richard | Nov 22, 2018 | General
Colin Hines had a letter in The Guardian on 22 November tackling the difficult issue of how to address populism, which he linked to the need for a Green New Deal: Your chilling, but hardly surprising, front-page revelation that one in four Europeans vote populist was...
