Green New Deal?

Green New Deal or more greenwash?

Gordon Brown today unveils ambitious plans for a 1930s American-style programme of public works to ease the pain of recession by creating up to 100,000 jobs. School repairs, new rail links, hospital projects and plans to usher in a new digital age by investing in superfast broadband will be used to keep unemployment down. The plans will also be used to tackle climate change, by means of investments in eco-friendly projects such as electric cars and wind and wave power that would also create jobs.
Observer 4th Jan 2009

Green Jobs for Wales consultation

Green Jobs for Wales

A consultation document has been drawn up outlining proposals and seeking your views on how the strategy will be formed.

This consultation will deal with how the Welsh Assembly Government can support organisations and employers in Wales to best improve their own environmental performance and take advantage of the new growth market in green products and services.

Your views on the proposals we describe in the document will be extremely important to us, and will guide us in deciding how the ultimate strategy is structured and targeted.

Anyone with an interest in this area is invited to respond and we are particularly keen to encourage responses from organisations such as small, medium and large enterprises, business representative organisations, community or voluntary groups, corporate social enterprises, community interest companies and public sector organisations.

The strategy, which will be drawn up following the consultation process, will play an important part in helping Wales reduce its carbon footprint.

In order to reduce the amount of paper used in this consultation exercise, please submit a response electronically wherever possible by completing and emailing the Word version of the consultation document to: businessandenvironment@wales.gsi.gov.uk.

Alternatively you can post your response to:

Sustainable Business Team
Department for Economy and Transport
Welsh Assembly Government
Plas Glyndŵr
Kingsway
Cardiff
CF10 3AH.

Responses should be received by 20 February 2009.

Please contact the team on 029 2036 8004 or email

Date consultation commenced: 18/11/2008
End of consultation: 20/02/2009

Cabinet Paper on the Green Jobs Strategy: consultation process and timing (Saesneg yn unig)

The Deputy First Minister and the Minister for the Environment, Sustainability and Housing have agreed a paper to be discussed at Cabinet regarding the production of a consultation document on a Green Jobs Strategy. here email
businessandenvironment@wales.gsi.gov.uk and ask for a copy!

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