{"id":43053,"date":"2018-09-10T06:38:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T05:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=43053"},"modified":"2018-09-10T06:38:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T05:38:55","slug":"cross-party-support-for-the-green-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/09\/10\/cross-party-support-for-the-green-new-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross party support for the Green New Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This letter was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/sep\/09\/our-jobs-plan-for-a-green-and-pleasant-land\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> in the Guardian<\/a> this morning, referring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/09\/10\/jobs-in-every-constituency-the-promise-of-the-green-new-deal\/\">to the new Green New Deal report<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago this week the\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/lehmanbrothers\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Lehman Brothers<\/a>\u00a0collapse heralded the worst global economic crisis since the 30s, the political, economic and social effects of which are still being felt today. To help ensure that these adverse trends are reversed it is crucial to return a sense of hope for the future, including through economic security for all, while fully protecting the environment.<\/p>\n<p>A key part of this should be the urgent consideration and adoption by political parties and local campaigners of a \u201cjobs in every constituency\u201d green infrastructure programme. This\u00a0would involve making the UK\u2019s 30m buildings super-energy-efficient, accelerating the shift to renewable electricity supplies and storage, and tackling the housing crisis by building affordable, properly insulated new homes. A transport policy would need\u00a0to rebuild local public transport links, properly maintain the UK\u2019s road\u00a0and rail system, and encourage a shift to electric vehicles. This approach is labour-intensive, takes place in every locality and consists of work that is difficult to automate \u2014\u00a0and so could provide a secure career\u00a0structure for decades.<\/p>\n<p>The tens of billions required annually to fund this massive infrastructure programme will require traditional government borrowing at the current low interest rate to help rebuild local economies. Additional finance could come, for example, from fairer taxes and the creation of savings opportunities in local authority bonds and green Isas.<\/p>\n<p>Such diverse economic activity would not only improve social cohesion and environmental sustainability but should also make our economy more resilient in the face of any repeat of the economic crisis of a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vince Cable MP, David Drew MP, Angus MacNeil MP, Caroline Lucas MP, Craig Bennett\u00a0<\/strong><em>CEO, Friends of the Earth,\u00a0<\/em><strong>Jonathon Porritt\u00a0<\/strong><em>Green party,\u00a0<\/em><strong>Colin Hines\u00a0<\/strong><em>Conven<\/em><em>er, UK Green New Deal Group,\u00a0<\/em><strong>Prof Richard Murphy\u00a0<\/strong><em>City, University of London,\u00a0<\/em><strong>Jeremy Leggett\u00a0<\/strong><em>Founder, Solar Century,\u00a0<\/em><strong>Ann Pettifor\u00a0<\/strong><em>Progressive Economy Forum,\u00a0<\/em><strong>Tony Juniper\u00a0<\/strong><em>Environmentalist,\u00a0<\/em><strong>Charles Secrett\u00a0<\/strong><em>Sustainability advis<\/em><em>er, former director of Friends of the Earth,\u00a0<\/em><strong>Tom Burke\u00a0<\/strong><em>Chairman of E3G,\u00a0<\/em><strong>Prof Tim Lang\u00a0<\/strong><em>City, University of London,\u00a0<\/em><strong>Neal Lawson\u00a0<\/strong><em>Director, Compass,\u00a0<\/em><strong>Robin McAlpine<\/strong><em>\u00a0Director, Common Weal<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This letter was in the Guardian this morning, referring to the new Green New Deal report: Ten years ago this week the\u00a0Lehman Brothers\u00a0collapse heralded the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/09\/10\/cross-party-support-for-the-green-new-deal\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-green-new-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}