Today’s fifth anniversary Green New Deal report is featured in the Observer this morning. Observer cconomics editor Heath Stewart writes: Campaigners have warned that Britain is hurtling
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The Green New Deal 5th Anniversary Report: A national plan for the UK
The Green New Deal group – of which I’m a member – has published its fifth anniversary report this morning: Our first report on how
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Life can only be lived within limits
My friend and Green New Deal colleague, Andrew Simms, had an excellent article in the Guardian yesterday in which he pointed out that best estimates
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When the world is suffering a glut of capital it needs a Green New Deal
The FT carried a fascinating article by John Authers today in which he quite convincingly argues that there is a glut of capital in the
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Banks have to shrink which is why we need a Green New Deal
The FT’s noted: Europe’s biggest banks will have to cut €661bn of assets and generate €47bn of fresh capital over the next five years to
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The one way to reduce debt is to spend – says the Green New Deal
The Green New Deal group was in the Guardian this morning: One of the justifications for the coalition’s cuts is the pretence that they are
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You’ll be paddling soon – and not necessarily at the seaside
As the Guardian notes: Flood defences, protecting nature and fighting pollution appear to be the casualties after Osborne inflicted the highest level of budget cuts
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We’re investing in carbon production when we need flood defences
Osborne’s investment programme is all about carbon production. Most especially he wants to build roads. And yet as the FT reports this morning: Insurers have issued a rare
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Farewell QE – now can we have Green quantitative easing now, please?
QE’s potential demise in the US has sent the world’s stock markets into a downward spin, providing the surest indication of where much of the benefit of this money printing exercise went. QE
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