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  • 25 Mar 2010
    Friends of the Earth welcome budget's Green Investment Bank plan

    Friends of the Earth has welcomed yesterday's Budget announcement to set up a Green Investment Bank, and has published a critical appraisal of the chancellor's other plans.

  • 25 Mar 2010
    Stuck in a deflationary spiral

    What do yesterday's announcements mean in terms of tackling the economic crisis, its main victims, and the climate change challenge? Here is my more or less immediate response to Alistair Darling’s final budget.

  • 24 Mar 2010
    Environmentalists call for green budget that boosts jobs

    As the Chancellor of the Exchequer prepares to deliver his budget today, he has been urged to lay “the foundations of a green future” by the campaigning group Friends of the Earth.

  • 23 Apr 2009
    The budget, climate and faith

    The campaigns director of Operation Noah starts a new series of reflective pieces for Ekklesia in the run-up to the Copenhagen Summit in December '09.

  • 22 Apr 2009
    Between the budget and a green place

    There are positive features to the 2009 UK budget, says Ann Pettifor. But many of them look meagre compared to the scale of the problems and the missing Green New Deal.

  • 22 Apr 2009
    Oxfam rues missed opportunity on UK poverty amid budget gains

    The global development and aid agency Oxfam says that today's budget is a step forward on climate change, good news on the government's aid promises, but a missed opportunity as far as tackling UK poverty is concerned.

  • 22 Apr 2009
    Government castigated by War on Want over tax havens

    The anti-poverty charity War on Want says that the 2009 UK budget has failed to provide a breakthrough on tax avoidance and tax havens, which cost Britain billions and contribute toward impoverishment across the world.

  • 22 Apr 2009
    Analysing the UK Budget '09

    Britain's first 'carbon budget' is possibly the most keenly followed one in modern history, given the global financial crisis and a massive borrowing requirement.

  • 22 Apr 2009
    UK aid commitments on track despite £155 million 'savings'

    Progressio today welcomed the UK government’s promise to meet existing aid commitments to the world’s poorest people in 2010-11, though it expressed concern at “efficiency savings” totalling some £155 million.

  • 22 Apr 2009
    Scrap nukes to boost budget, say Scottish peace groups

    Campaigners from Scotland have been proposing to UK chancellor Alistair Darling an alternative budget which does not include spending on nuclear weapons - arguing that that there are massive savings to be made.