In the media
A Green New Deal would put jobs first
This letter was published in the Financial Times on 5 February 2019: A Green New Deal would put jobs first Robert Hockett is correct that it is better to spend a large amount on a Green New Deal sooner rather than a crippling amount later as the damage caused by...
Cross party support for the Green New Deal
This letter was in the Guardian this morning, referring to the new Green New Deal report: Ten years ago this week the Lehman Brothers collapse heralded the worst global economic crisis since the 30s, the political, economic and social effects of which are still being...
Press release: 2013
Almost five years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers sent shockwaves around the global financial system, the Green New Deal Group, whose groundbreaking ideas were taken up around the world in 2008, publish a ‘National Plan for the UK’ that would shift the nation from the politics of austerity and rapidly-growing inequality to the age of the ‘Green New Deal’
In the news: 2009
Selected press coverage of the Green New Deal in 2009: August The Ecologist: Bailed-out banks should fund the Green New DealThe Star: Sheffield's green initiatives praised by author Colin Hines July BBC Newsnight: Plant closure leaves green energy plans twisting in...
Press release: 2008
UK needs ‘Green New Deal’ to tackle ‘triple crunch’ of credit, oil price and climate crises
Wanted: a green ‘new deal’
Economies in crisis: The downturn could help to stimulate investment in a low-carbon future, says Caroline Lucas, writing in the Guardian Joseph Stiglitz was right when he wrote earlier this week that the present economic downturn could be the worst since...