VOTE2019 Green New Deal Labour’s Green New Deal is vital to our planet’s future
BEFORE IT’S
A Brexit deal may be at the forefront of many voters’ minds but there’s another deal that will have far more permanent consequences not just for our children and grandchildren, but for generations to come. And unlike Brexit, Labour’s proposed Green New Deal cannot be delayed – or else it will be too late. As climate scientists the world over have confirmed, we have only a decade to halve carbon emissions or face planetary crisis.
While individual measures such as ridding our homes and shops of plastic straws are in themselves worthwhile, they pale in comparison to the structural economic changes needed to ensure a future for our planet and for our communities.
That’s why Labour’s Green New Deal, agreed at Labour conference and backed by all major trade unions, is a watershed moment. For the first time, voters are being offered real action on the climate crisis.
Labour unveiled its fast-track climate change strategy in October, with the ambitious – and fully costed – goal of
ensuring the UK is carbon neutral by the 2030s.
The party aims to achieve this by upgrading insulation for every UK home, installing 8m heat pumps, constructing enough new solar panels to cover 22,000 football pitches, and installing more than 7,000 wind turbines, among dozens of other measures.
Labour in government will accelerate the electric car revolution with a vehicle scrappage scheme that will take 400,000 of the dirtiest cars off the roads, and will introduce 2.5m interest free loans to buy electric cars. Billions of pounds of investment will be pumped into key sectors such as automotive to fully electrify plants.
But most importantly, unlike any other climate proposals on offer this election, Labour’s Green New Deal puts workers in the driver’s seat – taken together Labour’s policies to fight the climate emergency will create more than 850,000 highly-skilled green jobs across every region of the UK.
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It will reinvigorate areas left behind by de- industrialisation, and far from ‘costing too much’ – an unfounded Tory criticism – the party’s climate change policies will pump £2 into the economy for every £1 the government spends in capital investment.
Meanwhile, the Tory government’s record on climate change speaks for itself – in their time in power they’ve stopped onshore wind turbine installations, slashed subsidies for plug-in hybrid cars, quadrupled VAT on domestic solar installations, and failed to support the UK’s first ever tidal lagoon energy project in Swansea.
An analysis in October found that Tory MPs are almost five times as likely to vote against climate action and are much more likely to have received gifts and donations from climate change deniers and fossil fuel companies than MPs from any other party.
Unveiling Labour’s climate change strategy in October, shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey explained what exactly was at stake in this election.
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