The British Labour Party has committed itself to a Green New Deal, including zero carbon emissions by 2030 and the nationalisation of Britain's six largest
energy companies.
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Labour's target of carbon neutrality by 2030 is twenty years earlier than the Conservative government. It is also twenty years earlier than what the New
Zealand Labour-led government are proposing.
Environment groups have welcomed the decision with Greenpeace saying that although the target would not be easy to meet, 'missing the target by a few years,
or even a decade, is still a far better outcome than hitting the government’s 2050 target, which is dangerously late'.
The new decarbonisation target is part of Labour for a Green New Deal's policy package to increase social and economic justice , and which was adopted
in full by the conference. Labour's biggest union backers have also thrown their weight behind the Green New Deal.
It commits Labour to aim for net-zero carbon emissions by 2030, nationalisation of the big six energy companies, the guarantee of new good unionised jobs
as part of a worker-led just transition, free or affordable integrated green public transport, and support for the Global South and climate refugees.
Lauren Townsend, trade unionist and spokesperson for Labour for a Green New Deal, told the conference:
“Environmental breakdown is a class issue which requires working class solutions. The Labour movement has voted to take leadership on the climate emergency
with a response which puts people and planet before profit. Now the ambition has been set, it is time for our movement to come together to build a Green New Deal from the ground up in every town, village and city.”
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