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A National Plan for the UK
The purpose of this report is to advance a much-needed debate about how to move the UK out of the counterproductive politics of austerity and into the age of the Green New Deal. This is a matter of utmost urgency. If it isn’t introduced rapidly, we are likely to enter...
Green New Deal Group set out ‘National Plan’ to detoxify the UK economy.
Sunday 8th September 2013 5 years after Lehmans’ collapse: ‘National Plan’ to detoxify UK economy Green New Deal Group set out ‘National Plan’ to detoxify the UK economy. Plan would end zero-hour contracts, remove hidden bank subsidies, cancel PFI, end tax avoidance...
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’
Pension funds have a role in tackling climate change
This letter was published by the Guardian today: Laudable and crucial as Lord Stern's and Carbon Tracker's warnings are (Carbon bubble 'creates global economic risk', 19 April), their success will depend on the existence of a plausible, large-scale investment...
Discussion paper: Help save Europe with a Green New Deal
A call to action from the Green New Deal Group.
Briefing: Turn the 'Green Deal' into a Green New Deal
The first step to saving the economy: a call to action from the Green New Deal Group.
Report: Green Quantitative Easing
Download the report by Richard Werner.
£100 billion lost to tax ‘flaws and holes’
Green New Deal Group calls for a ‘Great Tax Parachute’ as alternative to spending cuts, to save the public finances and give the economy a soft landing.
Cuts won't work, but green spending will reduce public debt, create jobs, cut carbon, says Green New Deal Group
Two days ahead of the pre-budget report, and as the UN climate change talks open in Copenhagen – the second report from the author’s of the original Green New Deal says that the Chancellor is likely to miss a historic opportunity to tackle public debt, create thousands of new green jobs and kick-start the transformation to a low-carbon economy.

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...

A National Plan for the UK
The purpose of this report is to advance a much-needed debate about how to move the UK out of the counterproductive politics of austerity and into the age of the Green New Deal. This is a matter of utmost urgency. If it isn’t introduced rapidly, we are likely to enter...
Green New Deal Group set out ‘National Plan’ to detoxify the UK economy.
Sunday 8th September 2013 5 years after Lehmans’ collapse: ‘National Plan’ to detoxify UK economy Green New Deal Group set out ‘National Plan’ to detoxify the UK economy. Plan would end zero-hour contracts, remove hidden bank subsidies, cancel PFI, end tax avoidance...
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’
Pension funds have a role in tackling climate change
This letter was published by the Guardian today: Laudable and crucial as Lord Stern's and Carbon Tracker's warnings are (Carbon bubble 'creates global economic risk', 19 April), their success will depend on the existence of a plausible, large-scale investment...
Discussion paper: Help save Europe with a Green New Deal
A call to action from the Green New Deal Group.
Briefing: Turn the 'Green Deal' into a Green New Deal
The first step to saving the economy: a call to action from the Green New Deal Group.
Report: Green Quantitative Easing
Download the report by Richard Werner.
£100 billion lost to tax ‘flaws and holes’
Green New Deal Group calls for a ‘Great Tax Parachute’ as alternative to spending cuts, to save the public finances and give the economy a soft landing.
Cuts won't work, but green spending will reduce public debt, create jobs, cut carbon, says Green New Deal Group
Two days ahead of the pre-budget report, and as the UN climate change talks open in Copenhagen – the second report from the author’s of the original Green New Deal says that the Chancellor is likely to miss a historic opportunity to tackle public debt, create thousands of new green jobs and kick-start the transformation to a low-carbon economy.

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...