Selected press coverage of the Green New Deal in 2009:
August
- The Ecologist: Bailed-out banks should fund the Green New Deal
- The Star: Sheffield’s green initiatives praised by author Colin Hines
July
- BBC Newsnight: Plant closure leaves green energy plans twisting in the wind
- The Guardian: (Caroline Lucas) Making the innocent pay
- The Guardian: (Caroline Lucas) Vestas is too vital to lose
- Belfast Telegraph: Steps to a greener future
June
- Irish Independent: Going green is the way to our future prosperity
- BBC: NI groups unite on green platform
- Belfast Telegraph: New green deal proposal could create over 20,000 jobs in Northern Ireland
- The Guardian: (Larry Elliott) Emerald Isle plots green revolution
- The Daily Telegraph: (Geoffrey Lean) These green shoots mean business
- Reuters: Europe car scrapping seen failing green test
May
- The Guardian: (George Monbiot) Corporate welfare for car companies must stop now
- The Ecologist: (Joss Garman) An eco injection
April
- The Guardian: South Korea lights the way on carbon emissions with its £23bn green deal
- The Independent: (Leading article) Wanted: a real green stimulus
- The Independent: The Great Green Con: Labour’s climate measures mainly hot air
- Daily Mail: (Vince Cable) My Budget to revive Britain’s ailing economy
- The Guardian: (Jeremy Leggett) Starving UK plc’s green energy shoots
- The Guardian: (Colin Hines) Budget for a Green New Deal
- International Union for Conservation of Nature: Make sure rescue package is green, G20 told
- The Guardian: (Polly Toynbee) New world, new rules: now Brown must dare to spend
- Press Association: Call for £30bn green New Deal
- The Guardian: UK green companies facing cash crisis
- The Independent: Hopes for climate treaty set back by G20’s weasel words
- The Guardian: (Sam Phipps) How to finance the UK’s green deal
- The Guardian: (Oliver Tickell) G20: Chance for a real new world order
March
- The Guardian: (Oliver Tickell) Britain needs a Green New Deal
- Syndey Morning Herald: (Larry Elliott) G20 must seize the opportunity for a Green New Deal
- EU Observer: EU and US vow to use crisis for green new deal
- The Independent: Britain fails to deliver on pledge to lead world to ‘green recovery’