Press coverage for The Green Investment Gap
PIRC’s new report The Green Investment Gap was today referred to in two articles by Fiona Harvey in the Guardian.
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We need strong Green Bank to bridge green investment gap
This piece originally appeared on Left Foot Forward. New research from environmental think tank the Public Interest Research Centre (PIRC) reveals the scale of the green investment challenge facing the UK. The Green Investment Gap report (pdf) shows that Britain…
PIRC launches The Green Investment Gap
The Green Investment Gap is the first comprehensive audit of UK green investment, launched today by PIRC. The Coalition Government has declared it wishes to be ‘the greenest government ever’. In a time of fiscal retrenchment and huge cuts in…
Holding the 'Greenest Government ever' to its word
Remember the Sustainable Development Commission? For ten years it”s been trying to get Government to embed sustainability into its operations and policies – until last July the Coalition pulled the plug on its funding. The SDC is currently sitting on…
Green Investment Bank: too little, too late
George Osborne’s Spending Review, just announced in Parliament with the full document available online here, makes provision for a new Green Investment Bank (GIB). This is a vital piece of policy to take forward the low-carbon transition. But the announcements…
What Danny Alexander’s gaffe says on climate spending
Yesterday evening Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander was photographed reading an internal Treasury briefing on Spending Review announcements. When enlarged, the paparazzi shot contained some revelations: most of the coverage has focused on the Government”s acknowledgement that budget…
Climate spending: invisible to the naked eye
Information design extraordinaire David McCandless has produced a new bubble graphic looking at Government spending on much-maligned quangos. As with the Guardian”s colourful maps of total Government spending, you”ll have to squint to find the bits dedicated to tackling climate…
40% cuts… in green spending
Cutting by 40%… but these campaigners wanted to cut emissions, not spending I’m at the Labour party conference in Manchester this week, doing the rounds of the climate fringe events and asking whether ‘Red Ed’ will rediscover his previous persona…
Cutting red tape? More like axing the green economy
Green wood is not meant to burn well. But it appears that the Government is stoking its ‘bonfire of the quangos’ with over 15 environmental bodies, and considering the abolition of many more, blowing another hole in its claim…
Sustainable development? So far, it’s mostly been slash-and-burn
The bonfire of the quangos is in full swing, and the Government has started to throw green wood onto the rising flames. Last Thursday, to barely a whisper in the press, not one but two environmental bodies were axed: the…