Blog & Debate
Welcome to the GJA blog space. Here we host critical debates on the key issues we face, as an organisation, as a movement of workers, and as a society.
How hot is too hot?
Photo by Rajiv Bajaj on UnsplashBy Paul Atkin Mad dogs and Englishmen, go out in the mid-day sun Noel Coward. The heatwaves in May and June have so far caused 2,700 excess deaths. There are likely to be more before Summer is out. And with the current El Nino giving a...
Upcoming event from Hope for the Future – Oil Wars: Winning a Just Transition in an Era of Energy Crises
It's time to stop feeling powerless in the face of global insecurity and recurring energy crises, and instead reclaim our democratic system so that it works for the many. Since the US-Israel war on Iran began, we have witnessed a huge, coordinated lobbying push,...
Curriculum Review – not business as usual on climate, but we need more urgency
Photo by Tobias on Unsplash Faced with climactic conditions that are clearly breaking down, and posing an existential threat to humanity’s future (1) the Francis Review did not rise to the level of the challenge of preparing our students to help create a sustainable...
GJA AGM hears about Just Transition in Scotland and the ‘reset’ nobody wants
Photo by Mick Holder from our free online courses web page On March 10, the Greener Jobs Alliance held its Annual General Meeting at UCU HQ in Camden with around 30-plus attendees in person and online. We heard from GJA’s Graham Petersen about the ongoing great work...
A Primer on Carbon Capture and Storage Pipelines
Slide courtesy of Andrew Boswell By Ellen Robottom and Tahir Latif The first of a two-part blog on the government’s controversial plans to invest over £21Bn in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)1, focusing on the dangers and hazards to local communities of the proposed...
Cuba fights US sanctions with sunshine, and grit
Photo by Juan Luis Ozaez on Unsplash The tightened siege on Cuba by the US is an attack on one of the world's most sustainable societies by one of the least, and one that is trying to lead a charge towards climate catastrophe because, as Marco Rubio put it in his...
Year of Trade Union Climate Action launches
London demo, Saturday, Photo by Claire James Around the country, trade union branches participated in the launch of the Year of Action on climate agreed at Trades Union Congress in September. A workplace day of action was called for Friday 14th November, and the next...
Why SMRs are a delusion
Wylfa power station https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wylfa_Pano.jpgIn the context of Keir Starmer's announcement today that the first UK "Small Modular Reactor" will be built at Wylfa in Anglesey, this post from David Toke explains in detail why SMRs are not...
Constructing a Feminist Climate Emergency Response
As COP30, to be held in Belem, Brazil, approaches, it is instructive to consider what is needed to achieve a climate which will ensure a sustainable planet. The history of COPs is not encouraging: The Paris Agreement made at COP20 in 2015, committed to holding global...
The Emperor’s New Nukes
Adapted from an original image by The Digital Artist https://pixabay.com/users/thedigitalartist-202249/The deal done during President Trump’s state visit to the UK for a “golden age of nuclear” is a policy standing on ice as thin as that in the Arctic in mid-summer....
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...
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