Why the Oil Barons Can’t Survive a Green New Deal

The alternatives to oil are already apparent. The transition to a green economy will remove the demand for almost all oil based products.

 

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Article
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Craig Dalzell
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Common Weal

21 For 21: The Climate Change Actions Scotland Needs Now

21 Policies that would enable Scotland to meet our responsibilities as laid out by the 2021 IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

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Policy Paper
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Common Weal
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Energy Policy Group

Resilient Scotland Part Two

This phase of creating a resilient Scotland covers 2021-26 the five years of the next Scottish Parliament. It provides the detail of how the transformation envisaged can be achieved quickly, with a closer look at our economy, society and democracy.

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Policy Paper
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Common Weal

Resilient Scotland Part Three

The final stage of the Resilient Scotland Plan runs from 2025 with the upcoming Parliamentary session ending with Scotland becoming an independent country.  All of the work started in Part Two will continue and the work that could not start due to the limitations of devolution can now commence.  By 2045, the plan will be completely and Scotland will have been transformed into a net zero-carbon country with a resilient economy that works for All of Us.

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Policy Paper
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Common Weal

Resilience Economics, an Economic Model for Scotland’s Recovery.

We need a resilient economy, one which creates the good jobs that give people the income to live good lives now, which has the security to make us confident we can live good lives in the future, which useful, diverse, non-exploitative and which does not contain high levels of risk, or which falls over in a crisis. And this must all be based on a resilient environment which is always able to regenerate itself after human activity and can therefore sustain our lives now and in the future.

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Policy Paper
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Common Weal

Better than This

Resilient Recovery. We must emerge from the Covid pandemic in a way that fixes the problems raised by the crisis, fixes the problems evident before the crisis and makes us resilient; a green new deal; a new democracy; a national care service; Land reform; housing revolution; Controlling our own energy; better banking; and a focus on independence,.to future crisis like the climate emergency.

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Policy Paper
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Common Weal