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The green new deal
Around the world governments are intervening in the economy in ways that would have once seemed unimaginable. This blog thread explores the responses to the pandemic emerging around the world, and the policy proposals and practical approaches that might see us emerge, re-set and equipped to respond to the interlinked crises in climate, nature and inequality.
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The challenge we are currently facing is unprecedented in its scale, nature and impact. Around the world governments are intervening in the economy in ways that would have once seemed unimaginable. This blog explores the responses to the pandemic emerging around the world, and explores the policy proposals and approaches that might see us emerge, re-set and equipped to respond to the crises in climate, nature and inequality
The left must be bold and back a green new deal
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....
Let’s make 2019 the year of a green new deal
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...
The world really has no other choice but the Green New Deal
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....
Project hope and the Green New Deal
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...
Prevent Another Economic Meltdown With A European Green New Deal
This article was first posted on Social Europe on 4 October 2018: n the acres of recent coverage about the causes of the Lehman Brothers collapse and how to ensure it doesn’t happen again, there was much emphasis on changing the EU’s economic imperatives away from...
Greening the economy
The letter was in The Observer on 30 September: Will Hutton is correct that public resistance to austerity and increasing support for tax and spend should provide a huge opportunity for Labour, but that its present stance on Brexit could keep it from power (“In...