The #IPPR rightly follows Marianna Mazzucato & suggests that UK Govt. needs to invest directly in #greentehcnology;

as I've said before this make perfect sense; not only would it help accelerate the #greentransition, it would also pump-prime the UK's current lamentable #investment environment for #manufacturers...

Its a policy that the Labour Party should get behind.... its certainly a better use of #taxpayers money than subsidising #fossilfules (see earlier post)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/23/uk-needs-dragons-den-approach-investing-net-zero-thinktank

Britain facing ‘permanent asylum backlog’ and £5bn accommodation bill under new Tory migration act | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/asylum-backlog-small-boats-rishi-sunak-suella-braverman-b2396733.html

#AsylumBacklog
#IllegalMigrationBill
#IPPR
#SmallBoats
#RefugeeAction
#Care4Calais

Pay rises for public sector workers would NOT be inflationary

#IPPR reveals a 10.5% pay boost to restore real pay to 2019/20 levels, higher than rises announced by #Tories last week, would add at most 0.14% to inflation if funded by borrowing.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/pay-rises-for-public-sector-workers-would-not-be-inflationary-report-352737/

UK economy in growth ‘doom loop’ after decades of underinvestment | Economic growth (GDP) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/20/uk-economy-in-growth-doom-loop-after-decades-of-underinvestment

#UKEconomy
#DoomLoop
#UnderInvestment
#GDP
#InstituteForPublicPolicyResearch
#OECD
#G7
#IPPR

Useless Quote for 17 Feb:

"This is a doom loop."

~ Layman, Throp, and Sherman, "1.5°C – Dead or Alive?" (Institute for Public Policy Research, Feb 2023)

#UselessQuote #IPPR

(Full report: https://www.ippr.org/files/2023-02/1676546139_1.5c-dead-or-alive-feb23.pdf)

World risks descending into a #climate ‘doom loop’, warn thinktanks
Institute for Public Policy Research (#IPPR) & #ChathamHouse, said a current example of the impact of the #climatecrisis complicating efforts to reduce #emissions and other action was the debate over whether keeping the global temperature rise below 1.5C – the international goal – was still possible.
Report says simply coping with escalating impacts of #climatechange could override tackling root cause

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/16/world-risks-descending-into-a-climate-doom-loop-warn-thinktanks

#DoomLoop: #ClimateCrisis impacts “draw focus & resources from tackling its causes, leading to higher temperatures & ecological loss, which create yet more severe consequences, diverting even more attention & resources”. #IPPR
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/16/world-risks-descending-into-a-climate-doom-loop-warn-thinktanks

The Tory #levellingup delusion, invented by #liar #Johnson & continued by his successors, completely demolished by #IPPR report. Compared with nation states the North would be second lowest in #OECD. http://bit.ly/3DdrjAa #SunakOut #RejoinEU #toryliars #StandWithUkraine

Given the #Wales #HS2 funding row, got musing that someone (#IPPR North?) should work out how much the North of England would get if it benefited from Barnett consequentials....

The evidence in Britain is clear - attitudes towards immigration are changing, becoming more liberal and more rational.
This summarises research Rob Ford has done for the #IPPR. I don’t know either man, but I do wonder how he worked with the increasingly troubling Matt Goodwin.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/27/britons-wised-up-to-immigration-time-polticians-did-so-too

The evidence in Britain is clear - attitudes towards immigration are changing, becoming more liberal and more rational.
This summarises research Rob Ford has done for the #IPPR. I don’t know either man, but I do wonder how he worked with the increasingly troubling Matt Goodwin.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/27/britons-wised-up-to-immigration-time-polticians-did-so-too

#UK needs #sustainability act to avert economic collapse, says #IPPR | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/01/uk-needs-sustainability-act-to-avert-economic-collapse-says-ippr

#Economics #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Pollution #Nature #Wildlife