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Consider free public transport for all, not just buses for under-22s, say campaigners
Greener Jobs Alliance is a supporter of Fare Free London, a community based campaign for free public transport in London. They have just issued the following statement to the House of Commons Transport Committee and to Transport Minister Heidi Alexander, which GJA...
“Reparations Now! Climate Justice Now!”
Date: Saturday 23 August 2025 1200hrs - 2000hrs Venue: We are 336, Brixton Road, SW9 7AA (Nearest Station Brixton) Contact: Mel Mullings 07718 645817 As part of the Trade Union Year of Climate Action, this year’s RMT Reparations Conference 2025 will challenge us to...
Virtueless Signalling – Reform in the spotlight
In his pocket. Photo montage by Wendy Mayes from original photos by: by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0 For anyone who wants a future for this country that does not smell of ash trays, exhaust fumes and the sour sweat of xenophobia and, for that matter, anyone who wants...
Chris Hinchliff MP on Housing, Planning and Climate Change
Image: Craigyhill Housing Estate b y Wilson Adams, CC BY-SA 2.0Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment (ProBE), University of Westminster Symposium on Sustainability, Equity and Labour, 10 July 2025 At ProBE’s annual research symposium, the...
At the Crossroads: Environmentalism, Peace and Hope for the Future
Globally, the best estimate we have is that militaries are responsible for 5.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The US military is the largest institutional emitter of greenhouse gases on Earth, generating an estimated 636 million metric tons of CO₂ equivalent...
A new Hobson’s Choice: Burn the planet or blow up the planet
Photo by Etienne Girardet on Unsplash The military and the monetary Get together whenever they think it’s necessary They are turning our people into mercenaries They are turning our planet into a cemeteryA How is it that, as a society, we have reached a stage where,...
Farage and Reform risk ruining Port Talbot and Wales
Tata Steel works at Port Talbot by Phil BeardReform Party will put up to 10,000 energy jobs at risk at Wales From Energy Revolutions by David TokeNigel Farage’s fantasy promise to bring back steel blast furnaces and coal mining to South Wales is a cover up for his...
Fossil Fuels & the Far Right: A primer on how racism & climate denialism go hand in hand
Photo: DANGER by Alisdare Hickson https://www.flickr.com/photos/alisdare/That COP30 taking place in Belém, Brazil, later this year, a city that is the gateway to the Amazon river, is highly significant. Can the symbolic setting precipitate a fundamental change to...
London BUIRA & ProBE webinar: Global worker organisations & environmental regulation
Wednesday 28 May 2025, 17.00 – 18.30 Via ZoomDr Coralie Guedes (University of Westminster) on Global Framework Agreements, labour agency, and environmental regulation Dr Anastasia Alexeeva (University of Westminster) on Global employee representation in...
We Demand Change Climate Workshop – read and hear the speeches
Read and hear the speechesThe text of the speech by GJA’s Denis Fernando is presented in full here.We are witnessing a serious rise in the far right Trump is in power energising fascists like the rioters from the Jan 6 movement backed by Musk, the richest man on the...
Workforce skills for decarbonising energy, especially for retrofitting buildings
Photo by Raze Solar on Unsplash A submission to the ESNZ inquiry from Greener Jobs Alliance, greenerjobsalliance.co.uk/ Authors: Ellen Robottom, Les Levidow, Tahir Latif 1. Introduction 1.1 As a trade union-based, green jobs-oriented organisation the Greener Jobs...
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