{"id":58596,"date":"2021-08-13T10:19:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T09:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=58596"},"modified":"2021-08-13T10:19:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T09:19:49","slug":"the-quest-for-a-green-new-deal-is-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/08\/13\/the-quest-for-a-green-new-deal-is-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The QuEST for a Green New Deal is in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Hines and I are the partners in Finance for the Future. It's been going, quietly, since 2007, largely helping to raise funds to keep Colin working on the Green New Deal. But now it's spreading its wing slightly, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/07\/28\/be-careful-what-you-ask-for\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">we are both working for the next three years at least on QuEST<\/a>\u00a0 - or how to use quantitative easing, savings and tax to fund the Green New Deal.<\/p>\n<p>There are two items in the media by us in the last two days on this, both featured in full on the Finance for the Future blog (newly launched. The first is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.financeforthefuture.com\/2021\/08\/13\/the-quest-for-a-green-new-deal-in-the-national\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my article in The National, yesterday<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.financeforthefuture.com\/2021\/08\/13\/the-quest-for-a-green-new-deal-in-the-ft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second is Colin's letter<\/a> in the FT this morning.<\/p>\n<p>A summary of the QuEST can be found in this <a href=\"https:\/\/greenallianceblog.org.uk\/2021\/08\/04\/funding-the-green-transition-need-not-be-as-hard-as-the-government-thinks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green Alliance blog by Colin <\/a>or\u00a0this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/07\/30\/the-quest-for-a-green-new-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">version on this blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Hines and I are the partners in Finance for the Future. It&#8217;s been going, quietly, since 2007, largely helping to raise funds to keep<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/08\/13\/the-quest-for-a-green-new-deal-is-in-the-news\/\"><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-58596","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\/58596","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=58596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}