Politics

“The downside of the Green Homes announcement? It is not nearly enough.” Green Peer Natalie Bennett applauds Chancellor Rishi Sunak for releasing £2 billion of funding for home retrofitting to improve energy efficiency and home insulation across England, while warning that the funding and plans do not go far enough to kickstart the economy and combat the climate emergency.

An image of Green Party members at the campaign launch

Green Party internal elections candidates announced

The full list of candidates for the Green Party Executive elections have been finalised

Nowhere near a green recovery

Caroline Lucas calls on the government to be far more ambitious in its supposed green recovery

Decolonizing the Curriculum: Why Black History matters

Navasha Wray discusses the importance of re-examining Britain’s colonial past

Lobby government over slavery reparations, says Bristol councillor

Green Councillor Cleo Lake asks Bristol Mayor to push for government slave trade reparations

Demystifying politics: Q&A with Cleo Lake

Cleo Lake speaks to Green World about opening up more outlets for public engagement in politics

Rob Hopkins interview: Overcoming the crisis of imagination

Green World interviews activist Rob Hopkins about society’s loss of imagination and how to rekindle it

"Westminster looks dysfunctional to Scotland”

Part One of our Q&A with Scottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater

Greens triumph in second round of French local elections

The French Green Party swept to victory in eight out of 10 of the country’s major cities

Social security for all, Greens urge

“This is the moment for the government to raise its ambition, establish real social security and not cut support. The government’s success or failure will be judged by whether it provides...

Olivia Rutherford |

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UK Government

| Mon 29 Jun 2020

Opinion: A Green Brexit is possible

“Rebuilding local production is an action which will simultaneously make us less vulnerable to the ever-growing vicissitudes of the deteriorating global climate as global just-in-time sup...

Rupert Read and Emma Dawnay |

| Mon 22 Jun 2020

Calls for review into links between air pollution and Covid-19 deaths

“It is inexcusable to try and find out why the BAME community is adversely affected by Covid-19 and not consider the relationship between Covid-19 and air pollution.” Growing calls have b...

Olivia Rutherford |

| Wed 10 Jun 2020

Council of the European Green Party begins

As the 31st Council of the European Green Party (EGP) begins today (10 June), former Green Party MEP and member of the committee of the European Green Party Jean Lambert explains how the ...

Jean Lambert |

| Wed 10 Jun 2020

“Scotland is getting more different by the day”

Part Two of Green World’s interview with Lorna Slater, co-leader of the Scottish Greens, discussing Scottish independence, differences between the Scottish Greens and the GPEW, the role o...

Alan Story |

| Tue 9 Jun 2020

Oceans on a knife edge

“Urgent system change and a transformation of our treatment of the natural world are essential to the restoration of health, and to our own survival.” Green peer Natalie Bennett reflects ...

Natalie Bennett |

| Mon 8 Jun 2020

Focus Covid-19 support on sustainable industries, says report

A Green Party report explains how government Covid-19 economic support should prioritise sustainable industries and a Green New Deal, cutting back polluting industries and supporting the ...

Green World |

| Fri 5 Jun 2020

Greens demand inquiry into institutional racism and Covid deaths

“It has been clear from the start that this review simply was not going to go far enough because it was never going to address the institutional racism that affects people of colour, part...

Olivia Rutherford |

Society

Politics

Policy

| Thu 4 Jun 2020

George Floyd murder: Solidarity in pain and fear

The US is convulsing with protest over the shocking murder of African American George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, who kneeled on his neck for eight minutes, suffocating him. So...

Green World |

| Wed 3 Jun 2020