Subject: Fwd: Public finance and green issues
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> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:59:42 +0100
> From: M Turner <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Public finance and green issues
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> "Green Jobs Commission"
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> Stuart, can you send this around the northern Marxist network email list
> you
> have.
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> Thanks
> Mandy
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> The 'public finance' working group of the Green Jobs Commission is looking
> for experts in economics / finance / economic policy who would be willing
> to
> contribute research findings and ideas.
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> The Commission's origins lie with trade unionists in the Campaign against
> Climate Change. It has gained active support from a number of unions,
> including the RMT, TSSA, PCS, CWU and UCU.
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> Its goal is to produce a report: a thoroughly researched plan for the
> government-funded creation, in Britain, of one million 'green' jobs. The
> report's primary purpose will be to assist campaigning within the trade
> unions, although it will also have lobbying and general publicity roles.
> It
> is to be published during the run-up to the Copenhagen summit; preparation
> of the first draft will take place in July/Aug.
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> The report is to be a practically-focused working document, not simply a
> policy statement or a list of demands. It will consist of six or seven
> chapters, including 'public finance' -- which, essentially, looks into the
> question 'how can it be paid for?'
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> The chapters will not primarily be exercises in original research. A good
> deal of the detail can be garnered from existing studies.
> If you would like to hear further details about this project, or to
> communicate an interest, please contact Gareth Dale,
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> Dr Mandy Turner
> Lecturer in Conflict Resolution
> Department of Peace Studies
> University of Bradford
> West Yorkshire BD7 1DP
> Tel: +44(0)1274 234192
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> "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side
> of
> the oppressor." (Archbishop Desmond Tutu)
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