Watch: Securing a green recovery from Covid-19

Article

IPPR Webinar on how we achieve a green recovery from Covid-19. The speakers consider what action government, business and wider society should be taking to ensure we achieve an economic recovery that can put the UK on an accelerated path to net zero and the restoration of nature.

Speakers include:

Ed Miliband MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Alexander Stafford MP, Member of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee

Baroness Brown of Cambridge; Chair of the Carbon Trust; Deputy Chair of the UK Committee on Climate Change; and the UK's Low Carbon Business Ambassador

Angela Francis, Chief Advisor, Economics and Economic Development, WWF UK; Member of the IPPR Environmental Justice Commission

Luke Murphy, Head of the Environmental Justice Commission, IPPR

Click here to read the interim report of the Environmental Justice Commission.

Related items

  1. Doctor with patient for consultation, medical advice or procedure at clinic

    Taken to heart: Inequalities in heart disease in Scotland

    More than 7.6 million people across the UK live with cardiovascular disease (CVD), around twice as many as live with Alzheimer’s disease and cancer combined. 
  2. A beautiful sunset in the Scottish highlands with renewable energy wind turbines far into the horizon

    Skills passports: An essential part of a fair transition

    This month, government will publish its Clean Energy Workforce Strategy. This plan covers two aims. First, filling the growing demand for skills in clean energy industries is essential to keep on track to reach the government’s clean power…
  3. The Bank of England is watched over by a statue of the Duke of Wellington seated on his horse

    Fixing the leak: How to end the £22 billion annual taxpayer losses at the Bank of England

    The Bank of England increased its interest rates over recent years, aimed at reducing inflation. But this has also had an unintended effect on the Bank of England’s massive government bond buying – ‘quantitative easing’ – programme.