Labour and a Green New Deal UK (Green Industrial Revolution)
Labour for a Green New Deal has published the following documents as PDFs:
- After COVID we need a People’s Green New Deal
- Public Finance for a Just, Green Transition
- Millions of Good, Green Jobs
- Healthy Neighbourhoods
- Green Public Transport For the Many
- Towards a Global Green New Deal
- National Food Service
- Land Use
- Labour Policy Review Submission
Sign this Open Letter to Tell the Labour Party: We need a much more ambitious Green Recovery from Covid
Articles on the GND:
- Why we need an Eco-socialist Movement Tribune Magazine December 2020
- A Green New Deal for the UK, by John McDonnell, Jacobin Magazine, May 2019
- Electric Car Revolution – Labour’s plan to strenghten the UK automobile industry, creating and safeguarding 220,000 jobs, Labour.org.uk, September2019
- We can’t wait until 2024 to tackle the climate crisis – let’s fight for a green new deal now’ by Keir Starmer, Guardian, March 2020
- Pledge #3 Climate Justice from Keir Starmer’s 10 Leadership Campaign Pledges.
- Internationalising the Green New Deal by Keir Starmer
Reports constituting a GND:
- The Labour Party Manifesto 2019 https://labour.org.uk/manifesto-2019/
- The Green Transformation: Labour’s Environment Policy https://tinyurl.com/yyfvl9tu
- Thirty Recommendations by 2030 https://tinyurl.com/y3a7ccws
- Labour Land for the Many Report https://tinyurl.com/s2kv8bz
- National Investment Bank Plans Report to Labour https://tinyurl.com/y3ldkukt
IPPR A Wealth of Difference: Reforming the Taxation of Wealth
https://tinyurl.com/y6fy8spl
Commonwealth: A Climate Retrofit for UK Trade
https://www.common-wealth.co.uk/reports/a-climate-retrofit-for-uk-trade
Commonwealth: Green Recovery Act 2020
https://www.common-wealth.co.uk/interactive-digital-projects/green-recovery-act#1
Commonwealth: A Test of Mettle: Securing a future for a green UK steel industry
https://www.common-wealth.co.uk/interactive-digital-projects/a-test-of-mettle
DemocracyCollaborative/ CLES: Owning the Future: After COVID-19
https://democracycollaborative.org/learn/publication/owning-future-after-covid-19-
new-era-community-wealth-building
Labour: Towards a National Care Service
https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/12703_19-Towards-the-National-
Care-Service.pdf
Climate Change Committee: Sixth Carbon Budget
Additional Reports
Global Warming of 1.5C Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report
UN Climate Change and Poverty: Report of the special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
WWF Living Planet Report 2020
WWF Living Planet Report 2020 Summary
Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill (CEE BILL UK) Must read!
The Path to Net Zero Climate Assembly (UK) Final Report 2020
The Path to Net Zero Climate Assembly (UK) Final Report 2020 Summary https://tinyurl.com/y34d96s9
Reducing UK emissions Progress RepSort to Parliament – Committee on Climate Change, June 2020
A safe operating space for humanity’, Johan Rockström , Will Steffen , Jonathan A. Foley, Nature, September 2009
Planetary Boundaries Stockholm Resilience Centre. Home website with useful links.
Let the environment guide our development, Johan Rockstrom, TED Talks, August 2010
Doughnut Economics, Book by Kate Raworth (2017). Combining the theory of planetary boundaries, or the ecological ceiling with a social foundation to form a ‘doughnut’. A must read.
Exploring Doughnut Economics Website
Degrowth
‘Can we have prosperity without growth?’ New Yorker, February 2020
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/10/can-we-have-prosperity-without-
growth
‘How degrowth pushes climate and well being over GDP’, Bloomberg, Septemer
2020 https://tinyurl.com/yxvh3e7x
‘A Green New Deal without Growth’, Mastini, R., Kallis, G & Hickel, J., Ecological
Economics Vol.179 January 2021
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800919319615
‘Is green growth possible?’ Hickel, J & Kallis, G. New Political Economy
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2019.1598964
Less is more: How Degrowth Can Save The World, Jason Hickel (2020)
Rewilding
Natural Climate Solutions. ‘Our aim is to prevent climate breakdown by restoring our
life support systems’ https://www.naturalclimate.solutions/ Endorsed by Greta
Thunberg.
‘Rewilding and Climate Breakdown’ – a report by Rewilding Britain
https://tinyurl.com/ya8td7q3
The books that started the modern environmental movement
Silent Spring, Rachael Carson (1962)
The Limits to Growth, Dennis Meadows, Donella Meadows , Jørgen Randers ,
William W. Behrens III (1972)
Further Reading
A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal, K. Aronoff, A. Battistoni, D.
Aldana Cohen & T. Riofrancois (2019)
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal, Naomi Klein (2019)
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, Naomi Klein (2014)
The Unihabitable Earth: A story of the Future, David Wallace-Wells (2019) Must
read.
Finance Curse: The Finance Curse: How Global Finance is Making Us All Poorer,
Nicholas Shaxson (2018)
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013)
Limits: Why Malthus was wrong and why Environmentalists should Care, Giorgis
Kallis (2019)
Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to
Take It Back, Guy Shrubsole (2019)
Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change,
George Marshall (2014)
Fight the Fire: Green New Deals and Global Climate Jobs, Jonathan Neale (2021)
FREE DOWNLOAD https://climateandcapitalism.com/2021/02/11/lithium-batteries-
and-climate-change/
Prosperity without Growth: Foundations for the economy of tommorrow, Tim
Jackson (2017)
International Eco-socialism
Final Manifesto of the 3 rd International Ecosocialist Conference, September 2016
http://alterecosoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/manifiesto-inglesez.pdf
The Belem Ecosocialist Declaration. In 2007 more than 400 activists from 37
countries endorsed this statement of ecosocialist principles and goals
https://tinyurl.com/yxps64lk
People’s Agreement ‘Acurdo Pueblos’, WORLD PEOPLE’S CONFERENCE ON
CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH, April 22 2010,
Cochambamba, Bolivia https://pwccc.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/peoples-
agreement/
Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe, Michael Löwy (2005)
Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System, Ian
Angus (2016)
What Every Environmentalists needs to know about Capitalism, Fred Magdoff and
John Bellamy Foster (2011)
Articles of note
‘Capitalism is Killing the World’s Wildlife Not Humanity’, Climate and Capitalism,
October 2020 https://tinyurl.com/yxexym8r
Share of global habitable land needed for agriculture if everyone had the diet of…’
Our World in Data website https://tinyurl.com/yxvwqo2l
The Global Calculator is a free and interactive tool that helps you to understand the
link between our lifestyles, the energy we use, and the consequences for our
climate http://www.globalcalculator.org/
‘Five Reasons to Look after our Land, Greenpeace, August 2019
https://tinyurl.com/y4kmdgwt
Green New Deal UK, https://www.greennewdealuk.org/
‘Don’t Call Me a Pessimist on Climate Change. I Am a Realist’, The Tyee,
November 2019 https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/11/11/Climate-Change-Realist-
Face-Facts/
‘Ice Sheet melting is perfectly in line with our worse case scenario’ Science Alert,
September 2020, https://tinyurl.com/y32mejok
‘The Climate Factsheet for Rebels’, Extinction Rebellion, November 2018
‘We can and must save our pollinators from extinction’, Friends of the Earth,
September 2020 https://foe.org/blog/we-can-and-must-save-our-pollinators-from-
extinction/
‘What is the cimate impact of eating meat and dary’, Carbon Brief, September 2020
https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/what-is-the-climate-impact-of-eating-meat-and-
dairy/
This list is by no means exhaustive: any worthy omissions or additions, please let
me know!