I gave a public lecture at the London School of Economics (alongside fab campaigner Noga Levy-Rapport) on the Green New Deal – why we need it and what it looks like. (January 2020)
Lecture: what is the case for a Green New Deal? (LSE)
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Why the North needs a Green New Deal
Bringing together the ‘levelling up’ and climate agendas makes sense. I wrote for Tribune in 2019: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/12/why-the-north-needs-a-green-new-deal There is political consensus on the need to address geographic inequalities in the UK, with the Conservatives calling it ‘levelling up’ and Labour ‘regional rebalancing’. But what they’re missing is that the climate transformation is the perfect opportunity to put this approach into …