This week we take a look at a policy package put forward by a new group calling itself The Green New Deal which aims to address the triple challenges of the credit crunch, climate change and high oil prices.
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This week we take a look at a policy package put forward by a new group calling itself The Green New Deal which aims to address the triple challenges of the credit crunch, climate change and high oil prices. All three of these phenomena pose major threats the to the global economy if they are left untreated.
The groupâs inaugural report draws lessons from the policy packages that were devised by economist John Maynard Keynes in the UK and President Franklin D Roosevelt in the United States to deal with the depression of the 1930s.
We spoke to Andrew Simms, policy director of the new economics foundation and one of the reports authors.
Other members of the Green New Deal team currently include The Guardian newspaper economics editor Larry Elliott, former head of the Jubilee 2000 debt relief campaign Ann Pettifor, former directors of Friends of the Earth Tony Juniper and Charles Secrett, Chairman of Solar Century Jeremy Leggett and Caroline Lucas MEP.
The report draws important lessons from The Great Depression of the 1930s, Britain during Wolrd War II, Cuba in the 1990s as well as nefs work on well-being.
The report can be downloaded from www.nef.org
"The 300-350 Show" is the new name for "The Two Degrees Show". The new name comes from what is now believed to the safe level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This finding is based on the work of James Hansen and his team in a paper titled "Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim." http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1126
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