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Seeing off the Brexit Blues with a Green New Deal
This post by Colin Hines was on Brave New Europe on 29 March 2019: Some History Shortly before the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 a group of UK environmentalists and economists published the first ‘Green New Deal’ report https://www.greennewdealgroup.org/. This...
The answer to climate breakdown and austerity? A green new deal
Business as usual is causing environmental destruction and spiralling inequality. Our bill is a radical plan to address both, says Caroline Lucas writing about the Green New Deal bill in the Guardian Faced with unprecedented challenges, politicians appear more divided...
MPs launch ‘Green New Deal’ bill for UK to drive radical action on environment
MPs have taken the first steps towards a “Green New Deal” for the UK to accelerate efforts to cut emissions while transforming the economy and tackling inequality.
Green QE can apply to the Bank of England too
Caroline Lucas MP, a member of the Green New Deal Group, had this letter published in the Financial Times on 13 March 2019: Green QE can apply to the Bank of England too From Caroline Lucas MP, House of Commons, UK Your editorial’s call for the EU’s European...
The New Deal and a Green New Deal – turning economic and environmental disasters into an opportunity for national, public renewal
Andrew Simms explores the potential of the Green New Deal for the Rapid Transition Alliance, and asks what lessons can be learned from the New Deal A proposal for a Green New Deal from the dynamic new Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become a...
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...
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...
Seeing off the Brexit Blues with a Green New Deal
This post by Colin Hines was on Brave New Europe on 29 March 2019: Some History Shortly before the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 a group of UK environmentalists and economists published the first ‘Green New Deal’ report https://www.greennewdealgroup.org/. This...
The answer to climate breakdown and austerity? A green new deal
Business as usual is causing environmental destruction and spiralling inequality. Our bill is a radical plan to address both, says Caroline Lucas writing about the Green New Deal bill in the Guardian Faced with unprecedented challenges, politicians appear more divided...
MPs launch ‘Green New Deal’ bill for UK to drive radical action on environment
MPs have taken the first steps towards a “Green New Deal” for the UK to accelerate efforts to cut emissions while transforming the economy and tackling inequality.
Green QE can apply to the Bank of England too
Caroline Lucas MP, a member of the Green New Deal Group, had this letter published in the Financial Times on 13 March 2019: Green QE can apply to the Bank of England too From Caroline Lucas MP, House of Commons, UK Your editorial’s call for the EU’s European...
The New Deal and a Green New Deal – turning economic and environmental disasters into an opportunity for national, public renewal
Andrew Simms explores the potential of the Green New Deal for the Rapid Transition Alliance, and asks what lessons can be learned from the New Deal A proposal for a Green New Deal from the dynamic new Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become a...
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...
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...