MPs launch Green New Deal Bill for the UK

As thousands gather for what is expected to be the UK’s biggest climate demonstration yet, MPs Caroline Lucas and Clive Lewis have launched the first legislative attempt to introduce a Green New Deal Bill in Parliament.  The Bill aims to transform the...

The history and promise of the Green New Deal

Protestors call for a Green New Deal in 2008 The Urbanist podcast talked to Green New Deal Group member Andrew Simms about origins of the Group, their 2008 report, the challenges that inspired it and the principles that underpin it. Andrew explores the way it is...

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...