The US stock market, as reflected by the S&P500 index, reached an all-time high yesterday. According to the FT: The S&P 500 index briefly rose
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Joe Biden is planning on a Green New Deal
According to the Financial Times: Joe Biden – armed with a commanding lead in the polls ahead of November’s US presidential election – now promises
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Will Nicola Sturgeon publicly reject the comments of her chief economic adviser on those who want a Green New Deal?
The Scottish government yesterday broadly adopted the deeply depressing, profoundly conventional and neoliberal suggestions of the commission that it appointed to advise on recovery from
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How to pay for the Green New Deal
The Green New Deal is a recurring theme of mine, largely because I have been involved in it from the outset as one of the
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The National Grid’s “emissions negative†plan for electricity is a work of fantasy – and a dangerous one at that
Summer must have arrived. Crazy ideas are in the air. I just finished writing a blog about the wholly inappropriate and regressive tax that the
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The duty to build afresh hangs heavy on those who can do it
I wrote this as a Twitter thread. It became a long one. I offer it here in the way that I write it, with lines
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The Green New Deal in parliament
I am pleased to note that there is now an All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Green New Deal: The All Party Parliamentary Group
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When will politicians begin to appreciate the scale of the climate crisis, and their role in addressing it?
If you want to be depressed read this, from The Guardian: Governments are spending vastly more in support of fossil fuels than on low-carbon energy
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A Green Investment Bank is on its way back – and since it’s a necessary condition for the Green New Deal let’s not get too nit-picking, yet
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
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