Rather than focusing primarily on the environmental issues, Green peer Natalie Bennett took on the Conservatives on their own ground in amending the Levelling Up Bill: the questions of gr...
With their sights set on energy efficiency, policymakers neglect that green renovations are driving up rents for the most vulnerable. Only with strong social protections and a shift away ...
The climate and biodiversity crises confront us with the limits to growth. But can we let go of economic growth in a conflict-ridden world, where GDP counts as a source of power? The Gree...
The Green Party has repeated calls for a maximum 10:1 pay ratio between the highest and lowest earners in any organisation after a report revealed that the median FTSE 100 CEO is now paid...
Molly Scott Cato describes the Party’s tax policy, advocating for wealth tax, carbon tax, and land value tax to reduce inequality, support the green transition, and invest in public servi...
The Green Party has accused Shell of betraying people and the planet after it announced last week that it is abandoning its plans to cut oil production each year for the rest of the decad...
Spiralling cost of living and energy prices, housing shortage, climate disasters have fermented a generalised sense of insecurity in recent years. In this analysis, researchers Hannah Web...
Reports on the world’s unfolding food crisis have revolved around the war in Ukraine and the blockade of Ukrainian grain exports. But the conflict is only the latest tipping point for a g...
Prior to the budget announcement, the Green Party called for a fairer, greener economy. Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer has criticised the ‘business-as-usual approach’ taken by the cha...
Throughout the world, GDP growth continues to dominate as the key benchmark for assessing economic success. Yet when it comes to shaping economic policy for the future, Molly Scott Cato a...
In keeping with prevailing principles, the UK economy is driven by the pursuit of growth. Recently, however, a growth-centred approach has increasingly been challenged on the grounds that...
Chris Nash, headteacher and Green Party member, discusses Rishi Sunak’s ‘bad maths’ and idealistic Maths mandate, as well as the lessons he’s learnt through the Chinese education system.
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Molly Scott Cato on the Autumn budget statement today: “The chancellor focused his tax changes on earning, saying those who earn the most will make the largest contribution, but this neat...
“The UK is the sixth largest economy in the world” and “simply should not be in a position where people are having to choose between heating their homes or feeding their children”, says A...
As a follow-up to his article last week on Green doughnut economics, Martin Farley shows that Green economics requires complex mechanisms and processes, but should still be explained in s...
Many countries who signed the Paris Agreement continue to subsidise fossil fuels and nuclear energy, concealing their devastating cost to society. Green Parties around the world have a so...
Following a COP27 analysis on global emission reductions and the announcement that the UK economy has shrunk over the last three months, co-leaders are calling for further protections for...
Martin Farley explains why the Green alternative to 'growth at all costs' is not to oppose growth but to negotiate a different economic aspiration with voters.
