I was a co-signatory to this letter this morning: The Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP Prime Minister 10 Downing Street London SW1A 2AA Cc:
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Home energy efficiency: the way to create thousands of jobs
This post is by Colin Hines, convenor of the Green New Deal group and was originally on the Green Alliance blog. It is reproduced with
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The Green New Deal and Labour’s Green Recovery
Colin Hines of the Green New Deal Group and I made a submission to the Labour Party strategy review in climate issues. The theme was
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On LBC last night talking about the economic programme we need now to beat a recession
I was on LBC last night and got several minutes of almost uninterrupted opportunity to discuss what needs to be done to tackle the economic
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The government wants to row back on its already pathetic commitment to making the UK’s housing stock thermally efficient
I have already noted this morning the cuts that Johnson is planning to announce to the school renovation programme. The FT has noted another planned
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FDR would be rolling in his grave at the idea that Michael Gove might be a New Dealer
Micheal Gove’s Ditchley lecture, given yesterday, was premised on the idea that the Tories are going to deliver a New Deal for the ‘Forgotten Man’
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There is an opportunity for a large fiscal stimulus
I thought it worth sharing this tweet: https://twitter.com/summerton_econ/status/1276102335375249409 The comment in question is in an appendix, here and to help enlarge it a little it says:
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The case for a green stimulus is very clear: all that is required is political will
The UK Climate Change Committee has issued a review of progress today. It both makes worrying reading, on what has not happened, and offers hope.
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