{"id":46662,"date":"2019-11-07T08:41:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T08:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=46662"},"modified":"2019-11-07T08:41:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T08:41:16","slug":"people-want-zero-carbon-by-2030-its-what-the-green-new-deal-requires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/11\/07\/people-want-zero-carbon-by-2030-its-what-the-green-new-deal-requires\/","title":{"rendered":"People want zero carbon by 2030. It&#8217;s what the Green New Deal requires."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/nov\/07\/majority-of-uk-public-back-2030-zero-carbon-target-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian reports<\/a> this morning that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A majority of the UK public and almost half of Conservative voters support a radical plan to transform the economy and tackle the climate crisis, a poll suggests.<\/p>\n<p>YouGov found that 56% of people back the total decarbonisation of the UK economy by 2030 and just under half support public spending to make large swathes of public transport free to use.<\/p>\n<p>The findings appear to highlight a growing awareness of the scale of the climate crisis and the increasingly radical policy solutions the public is willing to support.<\/p>\n<p>Last week\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/oct\/30\/climate-crisis-affects-how-majority-will-vote-in-uk-election-poll\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">a separate survey<\/a>\u00a0found that the climate emergency would influence how most people vote, with almost two-thirds agreeing it was the biggest issue facing humankind.<\/p>\n<p>The new poll, commissioned by Green New Deal UK, a non-party-aligned campaign group, found that 47% of Conservative voters back a zero-emissions target by 2030, compared with just 16% who support the government\u2019s current aim of reaching that point by 2050.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am delighted by the poll finding.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to make clear that the Green New Deal UK is a broader coalition than the Green New Deal Group. We're friends, but not the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian reports this morning that: A majority of the UK public and almost half of Conservative voters support a radical plan to transform the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/11\/07\/people-want-zero-carbon-by-2030-its-what-the-green-new-deal-requires\/\"><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-46662","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\/46662","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=46662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}