A Million Green Jobs: Public Meeting

Event published by Leeds T U C

Event date: October 11, 2010 19:00

Tagged as: environmentalism jobs unemployment

Places: leeds

Worried about the recession & unemployment?
Worried about climate change & pollution?
Let’s address those issues.

INVESTMENT & JOBS
Millions of jobs would be created if we simply invested in the things we really need - protecting our environment, energy efficiency, public transport & housing, and renewable energy. Investing in the environment would create jobs. And most of these would be stable, long term jobs - not the temporary, part-time jobs of so much of the service sector.

WASTE
Huge amounts of energy are wasted. Investment in insulation and other energy efficiency measures would cut our need to use so much energy. Our houses leak heat. Energy goes into transport and pollution comes
out. Public transport uses far less energy and other resources than filling our roads with cars and lorries. We need

• A government-funded scheme to insulate existing houses.

• New, affordable, eco-friendly houses using less energy for heat.

• Affordable, integrated, public transport systems, publicly owned and run, for both people and freight.

Jobs would be created in vehicle building, transport, house building and house improvement.

RENEWABLE ENERGY
We need to stop burning fossil fuels and move to renewable energy to cut our greenhouse gas emissions and our dependence on energy imports. (The Labour government did not lift a finger to stop the closure
of the only wind-turbine blade factory in the UK.)

A massive programme of R&D into renewable technologies and putting these into practice would create jobs an a huge scale.

• Invest in urgent R&D to find the best forms of renewable energy
• Build renewable energy plants

speakers:
Campaign Against Climate Change - Martin Empson
Fire Brigades Union
Friends of the Earth (invited)

Jobs for the environment, not subsidies for the bankers.

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