The BBC reports: Investing $1.3 trillion (£800bn) each year in green sectors would deliver long-term stability in the global economy, a UN report has suggested.
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Friends at the forefront
Good to see the Observer noting the work of my fellow Green New Dealers Ann Pettifor and Colin Hines yesterday. They deserve it for their
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Obama – just a hint of a Green New Deal?
From the FT: Barack Obama will on Thursday propose to cut oil and gas subsidies to make way for new “green energy” tax incentives designed
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Green bonds
I have worked on and off for the creation of green bonds to fund green infrastructure development in the UK for more than eight years,
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There are no ifs, no buts, just a need for growth, not cuts
Simon Jenkins is a perplexing, and confused man. He’s written a piece for the Guardian in which he strongly criticises, on Keynesian grounds, the rise
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ConDems – deliberately creating child poverty
As the Guardian notes: The government’s radical programme to slash spending will see the first rise in absolute child poverty for 15 years, with almost
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Swallows and all that
Yes, I know all that I and others say about taking figures in isolation and extrapolating from them. But new car sales down 11.5% on
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The Green New Deal for Northern Ireland
The Green New Deal for Northern Ireland has been formally launched. This is direct spin off from the group of which I am a member.
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Was that UBS supporting the Green New Deal?
FT Alphaville has published an exchange between UBS economists on the need for a central infrastructure bank at this time of economic crisis. Extraordinarily the
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