Watch: Securing a green recovery from Covid-19

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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.

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