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At our July meeting we unanimously adopted the following motion, to be put forward to Conference:
Labour for a Green New Deal
Conference notes:
● To prevent the worst effects of climate change, we must keep global temperature rises below 1.5°C.
● Over 1°C of warming has taken place, causing floods, droughts, heatwaves, pollution, and hundreds of thousands of deaths. The poorest - particularly in the Global South - suffer most. Tackling climate change is thus indivisible from social, racial and economic justice.
● Just 100 companies are responsible for the majority of carbon emissions; and the Conservative government is deregulating the fossil fuel industry and cutting support for renewables.
● Labour has supported the youth strikes for climate and Extinction Rebellion, pushing the climate emergency up the national agenda. A Green New Deal is now a demand we must make.
Conference therefore calls on the Labour Party to include a Green New Deal in the manifesto: 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.
This will include:
● 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;
● Welcoming climate refugees while taking measures against the displacement of peoples from their homes.
Labour for a Green New Deal
Conference notes:
● To prevent the worst effects of climate change, we must keep global temperature rises below 1.5°C.
● Over 1°C of warming has taken place, causing floods, droughts, heatwaves, pollution, and hundreds of thousands of deaths. The poorest - particularly in the Global South - suffer most. Tackling climate change is thus indivisible from social, racial and economic justice.
● Just 100 companies are responsible for the majority of carbon emissions; and the Conservative government is deregulating the fossil fuel industry and cutting support for renewables.
● Labour has supported the youth strikes for climate and Extinction Rebellion, pushing the climate emergency up the national agenda. A Green New Deal is now a demand we must make.
Conference therefore calls on the Labour Party to include a Green New Deal in the manifesto: 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.
This will include:
● 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;
● Welcoming climate refugees while taking measures against the displacement of peoples from their homes.