I led a campaign for a couple of years to get the Treasury taking sustainability seriously, and one of its big results was getting the Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee to run an inquiry into it. Here’s the evidence I submitted. (on Parliament website) The Treasury’s overriding prioritisation of economic growth at the expense of environmental and social goals is a …
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Transforming the Treasury
I worked for a few years on highlighting the UK Treasury’s critical role in enabling or – more usually – blocking green economic transformation. Here’s a piece I wrote for OpenDemocracy about it in 2014. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/transforming-treasury-biggest-and-best-idea-of-all/ The Treasury is the spider at the heart of the Government web. It holds the purse strings and takes pride in saying ‘no’ to …