Shropshire and Shrewsbury Councillor Julian Dean explores how Greens in power in England are helping to drive greener local economies, so that they do more good than harm.
'Those in charge must consider how to help solve economic, social, and environmental challenges, rather than add to them.' Callum McGeown and Louise Taylor for the Green European Journal....
In a new column for Green World, co-leader of the Scottish Greens Lorna Slater highlights the need to move away from 'taking and disposing', and how the Scottish Government is making this...
GJA calls for a ‘just transition’ to a low-carbon economy, ensuring that jobs, workplaces, communities and cultures aren’t disrupted by change. Peter Murry, co-secretary of the Green Left...
In just four days, FTSE 100 CEOs earned more than the average UK annual salary. The Green Party is calling for a ‘mandatory limit on the difference in pay’ across every organisation.
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Green Peer Natalie Bennett reflects on the political, social, and economic instability of our current world, resolving that this is an opportunity to ‘build something different’.
On 17 November, Joanna Wright, Green Councillor for Lambridge, put forward a carbon tax motion. She describes her experience, in which she stood as a sole Green Cllr in a Lib Dem dominate...
The summit was billed as the COP where the issue of climate finance would finally be resolved. In reality, Finance and Economy spokesperson MEP Molly Scott Cato writes, it was a ‘private ...
Isabella Goldstein, Campaign Manager at the Zero Carbon Campaign explains why stronger policy commitments on carbon pricing are essential – with the mechanism already endorsed by global l...
Will the summit translate into meaningful mitigation of the climate crisis? According to Chris Nash, it doesn’t look like it. Whilst ‘capitalists play at being eco-activists’, he outlines...
Chris Nash examines the Autumn Budget, which he finds to be one of ‘catching up’, not ‘levelling up’. We must open the ‘green dispatch box’, he says, which would ‘unleash the energies of ...
Universal Basic Income may just be one tool at our disposal, says Judy Seymour, member of North Tyneside Green Party. Exploring three alternative systems, she outlines how their use in co...
The ‘green growth’ that Boris Johnson spoke of at the UN General Assembly is a fallacy, says Chris Nash. If we are to avert the climate emergency, we must build a society based on the pri...
With the Wellbeing Economy petition soon coming to a close, its author, Skylar Sharples, explores how we can move towards a society that supports both the people and the planet.
Member of North Norfolk Green Party and author, Alicia Hull, argues that in the face of Government failure to urgently tackle climate change, we need citizen assemblies and an alternative...
In light of the UK Government’s decision to reduce Overseas Development Assistance earlier this week, Georgia Taylor highlights how consumption in the UK harms the climate, the environmen...
“From the impacts of austerity that we see in potholed roads, closed libraries, inadequate social care provision, it is clear that tax is politics today.” Green Peer Natalie Bennett updat...
“It commits us as a council to leading by example: making sure that our own tax conduct is the best it can be.” Cllr David Francis explains why he has signed South Tyneside up to the Coun...
