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A Global Green New Deal

By Edward Barbier

Published by Cambridge Press

• https://www.amazon.com/Global-Green-New-Deal-Rethinking/dp/0521132029

• http://www.edwardbbarbier.com/Publications/a_global_green_new_deal-executive_summary.pdf

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Green New Deal

Back in 2007, in the U.K., the Green New Deal Group began to use the term Green New Deal... This group launched a first formal landmark report on 21 July, 2008 calling for a "Green New Deal". The Group consisted of two former directors of Friends of the Earth, the Guardian's economics editor, Larry Elliott, the Green Party MEP Caroline Lucas and Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation...

The following report is the fourth publication of the Green New Deal Group. Meeting since early 2007, the Green New Deal Group’s membership is drawn to reflect a wide range of expertise relating to the ongoing financial, energy and environmental crises.

• https://www.greennewdealgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Green-New-Deal-5th-Anniversary.pdf

More on the development of the Green New Deal

• https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/environment/2019/09/how-green-new-deal-was-born

• https://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2008/07/lynas-towards-economy-climate

• https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-urbanist/406/the-original-deal/

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Economy_Movement

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A GreenPolicy tip of the hat to the Green New Deal Group in the UK beginning its Green New Deal meetings in early 2007 and sharing its original proposals and ideas to Greens globally.

The Green New Deal Group is, in alphabetical order:

Larry Elliott, Economics Editor of the Guardian, Colin Hines, Co-Director of Finance for the Future, former head of Greenpeace International’s Economics Unit, Tony Juniper, former Director of Friends of the Earth, Jeremy Leggett, founder and Chairman of Solarcentury and SolarAid, Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP, Richard Murphy, Co-Director of Finance for the Future and Director, Tax Research LLP, Ann Pettifor, former head of the Jubilee 2000 debt relief campaign, Campaign Director of Operation Noah, Charles Secrett, Advisor on Sustainable Development, former Director of Friends of the Earth, Andrew Simms, Policy Director, nef (the new economics foundation).

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Green New Deal / More on Origins in the UK / the Green New Deal Group / a Global Green Vision

• UK / 2008 Press Release

• Via New Statesman / A Green New Deal

• Green New Deal - UK Green Party Talks / 2008

• Caroline Lucas, 2008 Co-founder of Green New Deal in UK / 2019 (video)

Via Grist / Surprising 2007 Origins of the Term -- "Green New Deal"

“We are the true patriots on this,” said (Thomas) Friedman. “We’re talking about American economic power, American moral power, American geopolitical power. Green is geostrategic, geoeconomic, patriotic, capitalistic.”

But then there’s Richard Murphy, a British tax scholar who also claims to have coined the phrase “Green New Deal” around the same time as Friedman. “I don’t even know who Tom Friedman is. If he used the term, it’s complete coincidence.”

In 2007, Murphy, a political economy professor and founder of the London-based Tax Justice Network, started meeting with a cadre of newspaper editors, economists, and environmentalists to discuss the coming financial crisis and how any fiscal stimulus issued in response could be used to tackle the ecological crisis already underway.

This “two-birds-one-stone” approach proposed an aggressive spending plan that called for investing public funds in renewable energy, building a zero-emission transportation infrastructure, insulating homes to conserve energy, and establishing training programs to educate a national corps of workers to carry out the jobs...

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