Futures Forum

Monday, 11 March 2019

Britain needs a green new deal

Last month, the debate in the United States really took off - and it was suggested that a similar debate should be happening here:
Futures Forum: Climate change > a Green New Deal for the UK?

The New Economics Foundation has been at the forefront of this push - and their director had a piece in the Times over the weekend: 

Britain needs a green new deal to revive its economy after Brexit

march 7 2019, 12:01am, the times
RED BOX | MIATTA FAHNBULLEH

Britain needs a new economy that works for everyone and to move beyond the old, broken systems and status quo that left many people behind. A green new deal for the UK could give us just that. Climate change has muscled its way back onto the political agenda. It was debated by MPs last week for the first time in two years. It seems that the momentum around Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey’s green new deal in the US, the audacious climate march on Westminster by schoolchildren last month and increasingly rising temperatures may have finally jolted our politicians out of their climate stupor.

Four months ago, a group of experts on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) delivered the news that the…


Britain needs a green new deal to revive its economy after Brexit | News | The Times

The NEF's podcast also talked us through the issues: 

WEEKLY ECONOMICS PODCAST: WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH THE GREEN NEW DEAL?

26 FEBRUARY, 2019 |  PODCASTS

AYEISHA THOMAS-SMITH
PRESENTER, WEEKLY ECONOMICS PODCAST


The Green New Deal has rocketed to the top of the agenda in the US. It’s an ambitious plan, spearheaded by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, to decarbonise the US economy and eliminate economic insecurity at the same time.

But in fact the Green New Deal has some of its origins here at the New Economics Foundation. So what’s the story behind the development of the idea? And how would a Green New Deal actually work, both in the UK and across the pond?

Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined this week by: Ann Pettifor, director of Prime Economics and one of the co-authors of the Green New Deal report published by NEF in 2008; Miatta Fahnbulleh, chief executive of the New Economics Foundation; and Waleed Shahid, communications director of the Justice Democrats, who also worked on the campaign to elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.



Image: Dimitri Rodriguez (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Weekly Economics Podcast: What's the deal with the Green New Deal? | New Economics Foundation
Together we can change the rules to make the economy work for everyone | New Economics Foundation

Although the debate has been on-going:
Futures Forum: The Green New Deal
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Jeremy Woodward at 09:20
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