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A #GreenNewDeal can tackle the climate crisis while raising living standards 📈 and reducing inequality 📉 #ClimateDebate

How can we afford it? Well, we've got a few ideas... 👇

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Five ways we can fund a #GreenNewDeal:

1. 💰 Borrowing - it has never been cheaper for the govt to borrow
2. 🎆 Multipliers - good investment will eventually pay for itself
3. 💎 Tax - raise taxes for the wealthiest and for polluters

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Five ways we can fund a #GreenNewDeal:

4. 🔀 Subsidies - redirect dirty subsidies to green industries
5. 🏦 Bank of England - lend to govt and encourage private lenders to fund green activities

We CAN afford it - we just need the political will to try.

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“While the Green New Deal concept is a new conversation here, it’s by no means a new conversation in the Global South” - @chilledasad100 at #GoodGreenJobs
What does the UK doing its fair share look like?

Decarbonising by 2030 AND paying finance for countries in the Global South to do the same, says @chilledasad100 at #GoodGreenJobs
This means considering the role of the City in the UK economy - much of the value of which lies in fossil fuels - @chilledasad100 #GoodGreenJobs
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#GreenNewDeal

"What are the specifics of that framework?
...a "10-year national mobilizations" toward accomplishing a series of goals..."

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The framework introduced on Thursday.
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