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UN to launch 'Green New Deal'

Posted on October 14, 2008

The Independent writes that top economists and United Nations leaders are working on a Green New Deal to create millions of jobs, revive the world economy, slash poverty and avert environmental disaster, as the financial markets plunge into their deepest crisis since the Great Depression.The ambitious plan will call for a massive redirection of investment away from the speculation that has caused the bursting financial and housing bubbles and into job-creating programmes to restore the natural systems that underpin the world economy. Far from restricting growth, healing the global environmen...

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