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UK Green Party MP Caroline Lucas who introduced the first Green New Deal Bill to parliament and is a founding member of the Green New Deal alliance, says that global policymakers must seize the opportunity to chart a new course.

"Pledges and targets will not avert catastrophic climate change—ambitious action will, but it's been perilously absent. The world is running out of time and out of excuses," she said in a statement ahead of the alliance's launch.

"A Green New Deal wouldn't only avert the worst of the climate and nature crises. It would make everyday life better for the vast majority of people wherever they live in the world."

"This is our moonshot moment, but this time it's about making a better life here on Earth and the only way we can do that is by working together as never before."

• https://www.carolinelucas.com/latest/latest-newsletter-38

A Green New Deal consists of two main strands:

Firstly, it involves the redesign of national and international financial systems so that they serve the needs of people and planet, and major changes to taxation;

Secondly, significant investment in energy conservation and renewable energies coupled with policies that reduce resource use in the global north. This means transforming the way we travel, the way we grow food, manage land, value the people who care for us and the way we work. These ambitious programmes must be designed to reduce the use of fossil fuels and restore nature at the scale and speed that science tells us is necessary. They need to address inequality within and between nations by focussing resources on the communities and places around the world where they are needed most.

As elected representatives, we commit to working towards a Green New Deal...

Read the Green New Deal Declaration here -- https://www.globalgreennewdeal.org/the-declaration

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