I sometimes criticise our government. It's only appropriate then to note when it is moving in the right direction. This is good news, from The Guardian:
The UK government is poised to reveal plans for a new state-backed green bank to help finance Britain's climate ambitions, three years after ministers agreed to sell the UK's Green Investment Bank.
They add:
Kwasi Kwarteng, the energy minister, said that he expects the government to set out how it plans to create a successor to the Green Investment Bank “in the not-too-distant future”.
I am amongst many who have called for this, and it is a core Green New Deal demand as well as a necessary part of green quantitative easing:
The move to rebuild a new green lender comes amid growing calls from climate campaigners, economists and academics to invest in green infrastructure to help revive the UK's struggling economy and help meet its climate targets.
We could in that case be way further ahead than we are now, but I will avoid such criticism now: at least a move is being made in the right direction.
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This is good news Richard, but the sale of the previous one just shows how badly we are governed by this lot.
In 2017, the Tories finally got rid of the brownfield site remediation grant for all developers to (of course) help the costs of cleaning up contaminated land.
Now we’ve just heard that they have reintroduced it in a £400 million brownfield fund.
OK – fine – but what dogma and idiotology led these ideas to being got rid of in the first place!!?
And we see the same internal ructions in the Tory party over face masks!!
It’s like watching Lord of the Flies or something, with the instinct to govern properly constantly jockeying against the laissez-faire attitudes of the Thatcherites.
This is not competent Government at all.
Sometimes we have to clutch at straws
hoping against hope…
on a brighter note is what is happening despite governmental incompetence: more offshore wind energy investment and in East Anglia some ‘big’ landowners setting aside parts of their land for more sustainable agricultural practices and encouragement of wildlife.
Bit like USA – some great stuff happening