Sustainability & Justice For All - The Local Green New Deal

In this Podcast we interview Richard Murphy on what a Green New Deal is and how it can be applied to our localities to achieve both sustainability and climate justice.

Richard is one of the leading authorities in the country and helped to design the elements of a new green deal that combines tackling emissions and achieving climate justice. I doing this he worked with a group of prominent people including Anne Pettifer of the Jubilee Campaign.

Richard believes that whilst it would seem that many of the Green New Deal issues require major upfront funding (and that is indisputable) as much can be done by highlighting how local people might work together to effect change. This is what we will mainly discuss in the interview

Richard Murphy is a chartered accountant and a political economist. He has been described by the Guardian newspaper as an “anti-poverty campaigner and tax expert”. He is Professor of Practice in International Political Economy at City University, London and Director of Tax Research UK. He is a member of the Progressive Economy Forum.  Richard was a co-founder of the Tax Justice Network and Green New Deal, as well as the Fair Tax Mark.  He is the founder-director of the Corporate Accountability Network.