Economy and Jobs Policy Guide

Economy and Jobs
Making Green Mean Business

The Green Economy IS The Economy

Liberal Democrat Policy:

This topic has been discussed extensively in the following policy papers:
● PP8 Agenda for Sustainability
● PP16 Investment, Partnership, Sustainability
● PP29 Making the Environment Our Business
● PP41 A Strategy For Sustainability
● PP45 Local Economies, Local Choice
● PP57 Prosperity at Home and Abroad
● PP65 Wealth for the World
● PP77 Green and Prosperous Communities
● PP105 Sustainable Prosperity and Jobs
● PP109 Green Growth and Green Jobs
● PP113 Prosperous, Sustainable and Secure
● PP114 Stronger Economy in a Fairer Society (from which:)

Liberal Democrat Principles and Vision
Liberal Democrats believe that economic growth must be sustainable, and that it must help to create
full employment, decent incomes, a civilized welfare state and high quality public services.
We want to build an economy on the basis of investment, high skills, individual enterprise and balanced growth
across all sectors and regions. We support an economy based on competition and devolved power,
not on monopolies. We support a tax system which rewards work, incentivises investment, and which
is fair and simplified. We believe in open economies and international trade.
We want to compete on the basis of high skills and of green technologies and products which cut pollution and make the best
use of increasingly scarce natural resources. Liberal Democrats believe that every person should be
enabled to succeed, and that society should use its resources to protect those who would otherwise
fall into poverty, and provide a decent level of protection against unemployment, sickness and old age.

The Green Liberal Democrats Challenge magazine articles:

• 2007 Winter p4 Sustainability in Germany
• 2008 Spring p8 Towards Greener Living
• 2008 Summer p15 Much more than Economics
• 2008 Autumn p2 Richer but not Happier
• 2008 Winter p4 "Houston, we've had a problem"
• 2009 Spring p1 Hitting the Growth Buffers
• 2009 Summer p4 A Local Green Way Out Of Recession
• 2009 Summer p19 The Hydrogen Economy in Practice
• 2010 Summer p16 What is a Low Carbon Economy?
• 2011 Summer p17 Building the Low Carbon Future
• 2012 Autumn p5 Getting to the Front
• 2014 Spring p8 Green Backbone
• 2014 Summer p20 What is a Green Economy?

Resources:

• Nick Clegg speech on the green economy: 'I say that lean times can be green times too,' argues deputy prime minister in speech on green growth and energy efficiency http://tinyurl.com/oxhqj9r
• Ed Davey: Energy Act will create 200,000 Green Jobs
  http://www.libdems.org.uk/ed_davey_energy_act_will_create_200_000_green_jobs
• UNEP has developed a working definition of a green economy as one that results in improved human wellbeing and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and
  ecological scarcities. http://www.unep.org/greeneconomy/
• The World Green Economy Summit in Dubai in 2015 will focus on the transformation towards global green economies http://tinyurl.com/qygk4da
• The green economy coalition is a global network of organisations committed to accelerating a transition to a new green inclusive economy. http://www.greeneconomycoalition.org/
• Economic growth and action on climate change can now be achieved together, finds Global
  Commission http://newclimateeconomy.report/

Green Job Recruitment sites:

● www.greenjobs.co.uk
● www.environmentjob.co.uk/jobs
● www.greenjobsonline.co.uk/
● jobs.environmentalistonline.com

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