{"id":45266,"date":"2019-06-08T20:12:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T19:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=45266"},"modified":"2019-06-09T09:28:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T08:28:38","slug":"the-objectives-of-the-green-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/06\/08\/the-objectives-of-the-green-new-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"The objectives of the Green New Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have mentioned I was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/06\/08\/on-the-cob\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">out and about whilst doing some thinking today<\/a>. One of the things I was sketching out were the objectives of the Green New Deal. I came up with this. Comments welcome:<\/p>\n<p><em>The objectives of the Green New Deal shall be:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>To create a net zero carbon economy<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>To protect against habitat and biodiversity loss<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>To ensure every building in the UK is as energy efficient as feasibly possible, and generates power if that can be accommodated within its design<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>To promote public transport for all journeys, including and most especially local ones<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>To encourage the building of new low and no-carbon housing to meet social need<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>To invest in new methods of power generation, transmission and distribution<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>To encourage alternative and reduced forms of consumption that reduce the demand on the natural resources of our planet<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>To create jobs paying at least a living wage in every constituency of the United Kingdom<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>To promote apprenticeships, other training and life long skill creation in those activities undertaken as part of the Green New Deal<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>To promote the local economy in every UK region, city, town and community<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>To encourage new forms of enterprise that might deliver economic resilience within the sustainable economy<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>To encourage approaches to the use of artificial intelligence consistent with the Green New Deal<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>To encourage new ways of working consistent with the objectives of the Green New Deal<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>To promote sustainable equality, which is defined as an equal proportionate use of the available non-sustainable resources consistent with overall maintenance of the prospects of continuing life on earth of the country irrespective of the financial means of each person<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>To reduce inequality in the UK<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>To reduce tax abuse within the UK as a mechanism for reducing inequality, promoting social change, repricing market failure and promoting the funding mechanisms of the Green New Deal<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have mentioned I was out and about whilst doing some thinking today. One of the things I was sketching out were the objectives of<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/06\/08\/the-objectives-of-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":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-new-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45266","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=45266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}