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How fresh economics can tackle coronavirus and climate change

by Colin Hines | Mar 24, 2020 | General, Media, Other coverage, The Green New Deal

In a letter to the Guardian, Green New Deal group member Colin Hines makes the case for “green QE” to fund a global green new deal that can transform the health of the planet and build a very different economy for a post-coronavirus world: Larry Elliott...

Cross-party letter urges Chancellor to use budget to show climate leadership ahead of UN climate summit

by GND 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...

When 14 million homes and businesses switched fuel in less than a decade

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...

The Green New Deal is all about ‘levelling up’ the UK

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...

Sainsbury’s plan for net zero-carbon ignores all the emissions that they enable – and that’s not good enough

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...

Investment in the Green New Deal could revitalise democracy

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...
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