H&WG Highlights
H&WG Highlights
Hornsey & Wood Green Labour
Promoting a Green Recovery
1 hour 29 minutes Posted Sep 23, 2020 at 7:30 am.
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What should a truly sustainable Green Recovery entail? And how can Labour build the broadest possible support for immediate measures combining good employment, social justice, and well-being, within an overall strategy to tackle the climate and ecological emergencies, as the only sustainable, viable option.

Speakers discuss the issue at a Zoom event hosted by the Highgate Branch of H&WG Labour Party.

  • Matthew Pennycook, Shadow Minister for Climate Change
  • Jo Rees - Wales TUC-campaigning for “A Green recovery and a Just
    Transition”
  • David Timms, Head of Political Affairs, Friends of the Earth
  • Dimitri Zenghelis, LSE – co -authored “Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change?”
  • Rebekah Diski – local Green New Deal activist