A Just, Green Recovery
Amid growing calls for a Green New Deal to rebuild the UK post-pandemic, Labour launched a consultation on its plan for a just and green recovery in May of this year.
Just under 2,000 people submitted responses – and an incredible 1,400 of those endorsed our proposals for a socialist Green New Deal in a new post-Covid social settlement. Read our policy submissions and petition below.
Our policy submissions
The coronavirus crisis has shattered the lie that radical political and economic change isn’t possible. With millions unemployed and the Arctic burning, the case for a Green New Deal - rooted in public ownership, rapid decarbonisation and climate justice - has never been stronger. You will find below some of Labour for a Green New Deal’s proposals for a green recovery and transformed society post-covid, working for people and planet. These were submitted by our campaign to the consultations run by Ed Miliband and Labour’s National Policy Forum.
Labour for a Green New Deal believes that conference is sovereign and Labour as a democratic socialist party must advance its resolutions. These documents are intended as additional ideas for the socialist Green New Deal the party must advance.
We can’t go back to a broken normal and a burning planet. After covid, we need a People’s Green New Deal - Labour must fight for it.
We can’t go back to carmaggedon and mass aviation. It’s time for large-scale investment in electrified, publicly-owned, accessible and affordable bus and train travel instead.
We need bailouts for workers and planet, not billionaires, and a transformed financial landscape. Here’s why.
The UK has a huge climate debt to play, but we’re still making things worse with neo-colonial fossil fuel finance. It’s time to scrap that and materially support Global South countries through a just energy transition instead, while cancelling the debt.
From home insulation to tree planting, we need to invest in new green industries to rapidly decarbonise our economy. We need those jobs to be well-paid, unionised, and in the public sector.
Our neoliberal food and agriculture system left the shelves empty while destroying the soil, and helping to unleash this pandemic. We need a National Food Service to ensure the long-term health of everyone.
From green space to broadband, coronavirus has demonstrated how essential our home life is, and yet how unequal and unhealthy it so often is. We need new universal rights - to energy, water, broadband and Warm Homes - delivered through public ownership.
From new national parks to key questions of ownership, we need a transformed approach to land. Here are some ideas how.