Budget fails to deliver Green New Deal
Green New Deal Group members explain why the Budget falls far short of what’s needed to tackle the triple crunch of finance, climate and energy crises, and set out their vision for a Green New Deal Budget
The global economy is facing a ‘triple crunch’. It is a combination of a credit-fuelled financial crisis, accelerating climate change and the looming peak in oil production. These three overlapping events threaten to develop into a perfect storm, the like of which has not been seen since the Great Depression. To help prevent this from happening, and to lay the foundations of the economic systems of the future, we need a Green New Deal.
There is still time. Act now and a positive course of action based on the framwork set out in A Green New Deal can pull the world back from economic and environmental meltdown.
Brown’s new green spending delays carbon build-up by less than half a day
Government’s new and additional green investment is a mere fraction of the bonuses awarded to the top staff at the failed Royal Bank of Scotland, according to a new report by Green New Deal publisher nef (the new economics foundation).
Put People First: demand a Green New Deal
The Green New Deal Group are one of over 140 organisations supporting the march for jobs, justice and the climate this Saturday.
