Labour’s Green New Deal
[ch 1: page 19]The campaign group Labour for a Green New Deal is urging constituency labour parties (CLPs) and trade union branches to pass its motion calling on the Labour Party to include a Green New Deal in its manifesto and submit it to the 2019 Labour Party conference.
The Green New Deal is “a state-led programme of investment and regulation for the decarbonisation and transformation of our economy that reduces inequality and pursues efforts to keep global average temperature rises below 1.5°C”. It includes:
• commitment to zero carbon emissions by 2030;
• rapidly phasing out all fossil fuels;
• large-scale investment in renewables;
• a Just Transition to well-paid, unionised, green jobs available for all;
• a green industrial revolution expanding public, democratic ownership as far as necessary for the transformation;
• green public integrated transport that connects Britain;
• supporting developing countries’ climate transitions by increasing transfers of finance, technology and capacity;
• assuring everyone’s basic rights through the provision of universal services; and
• welcoming climate refugees while taking measures against the displacement of peoples from their homes.
Labour for a Green New Deal, Conference Motion 2019 (https://www.labourgnd.uk/motions)