Tag: green new deal

Opinion: Taxing Times: With the Economy Unravelling, We Need a Budget for the Green New Deal
Released amid a collapsing stock market and plunging oil prices, Wednesday's budget is unlikely to meet the challenges ahead, particularly on the climate, write Adrienne Buller and Miriam Brett. A systems crisis demands a systems response, and overhauling the design of the tax system is central to this.
Opinion: The Government’s Inadequate Response to Flooding Is Further Proof It ‘just doesn’t get’ Climate Change
Storm Dennis and Storm Ciara are just the latest in a string of increasingly severe weather events that have devastated entire regions, caused mass travel disruption, and confirmed that the UK government has no coherent or credible plan for the challenges our changing climate will inevitably bring, writes Hannah Martin.
Long Read: What’s the Deal With the Green New Deal?
In this long read, sociologist Alex Wood explores the limitations of current discussions around the green new deal, and asks what it would take to make the programme reflect workers' everyday experiences of capitalism.
Opinion: Military Interventions Won’t Solve Climate Change
As the effects of climate change worsen for many across the globe, merely reacting is not enough. We must take proactive, preventative steps to tackle the problem, argues Hannah Martin.
4 Ways We Can Continue Building a Green New Deal
The prominence of climate politics over 2019 failed to be translated into the UK general election, but with the task of mitigating climate change only growing there is no time to spare. Angus Satow suggests four ways to continue building towards a green new deal.
Labour’s Next Leader Must Be Able to Talk About Class and Climate Justice

As Boris Johnson’s government inevitably fails to take action on climate change we will begin to experience harsher climate shocks. Labour needs a leader comfortable stepping up to interpret these events by laying the blame at Johnson’s feet and articulating a compelling socialist response.

GE2019: Why a Great Corbyn Campaign Is Good News for Bernie Sanders

For the first time in a long time, there are significant social forces on both sides of the Atlantic working to build a cross-pollinating international movement, writes Jake Woodier, while also waging their own campaigns embodying a major push-back against the forces of far-right neoliberal capital. 
GE2019: Labour Needs a Bold Climate Vision in This Election – Including a 2030 Decarbonisation Target
In what is being touted as the UK's first 'climate election', Aliya Yule argues it's up to the Labour party to put forward the strong vision required to tackle the climate crisis.
In Pursuit of a Common Wealth | Interview With George Monbiot

George Monbiot is a writer and activist. He is the founder of The Land is Ours, a campaign for the right of access to the countryside and its resources in the United Kingdom. His latest book, Out of the Wreckage: a new politics for an age of crisis sketches a new political story, tailored to […]

GE2019: This Election Is Where We Decide the Planet’s Future
With vast swathes of the planet quite literally on fire, 71% of Britons agree climate crisis is a more pressing issue than Brexit, writes Eleanor Penny. But while Labour is offering a potentially transformative Green New Deal, the Tories have an actual fracking lobbyist writing their manifesto.
The Debrief

James Butler is joined by James Meadway and Adrienne Buller to break down the outcome of Labour Conference: will radical policy translate to radical action?
In the Ring With TyskySour: Green New Deal

Parliament has finally declared climate change a national emergency. However, whilst most of the Corbyn movement is on board with the idea of a Green New Deal, there are many different visions over what a truly transformative Green New Deal can look like. This live episode of #TyskySour will delve into these tensions, debating the […]

How a Green New Deal Would Reignite Corbynism
Beyond its policy ambitions, the momentum gathered by the Labour for a Green New Deal campaign shows the way forward in injecting Corbynism with a new lease of life ahead of an election, argues Chris Saltmarsh.
Not Liberal, Not Democrats?

The Lib Dem conference, Johnson’s renegotiation, plus Ann Pettifor’s new book on the Green New Deal. With Ann Pettifor and Tom Kibasi.
To Tackle Climate Breakdown, We Need to Build a Post-Work Society
From stagnating wages and exploitative working conditions to rising temperatures and extreme weather events, both our working lives and our climate are in crisis. A shorter working week could offer solutions to both, argues Emilie Tricarico.
Try Though They Will, We Can’t Let Moderates Water Down the Green New Deal
Ahead of London Climate Action Week, Sadiq Khan has come out in support of a ‘Green New Deal’ for London. Abel Harvie-Clark argues we can’t let the Green New Deal be co-opted by moderate politicians with no intention of delivering the radical change we need.
Climate Leviathan
James Butler is joined by Geoff Mann, co-author of Climate Leviathan, to discuss the political consequences of climate change.
From Afforestation to Animals – It’s Time to Talk About Agricultural Reform
We should all welcome the level of traction proposals like the green new deal are gaining, but taking emissions targets seriously means getting real about land reform and animal politics, argue Kay Miller and Louis Goddard.

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