{"id":323,"date":"2009-10-07T11:13:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T10:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/?p=323"},"modified":"2009-10-07T12:19:09","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T11:19:09","slug":"uk-green-party-backs-just-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/2009\/10\/07\/uk-green-party-backs-just-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Green Party backs Just Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s Green Party is backing green jobs and just transition, and says the green economy plan should be formulated in consultation with trade unions.<\/p>\n<p>Green Party leader Caroline Lucas, speaking at a just transition workshop at the party&#8217;s autumn conference,\u00a0said the issue of green jobs and just transition are \u201censhrined\u201d in the party\u2019s manifesto.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0She added: \u201cClimate change isn\u2019t just an environmental issue, it is very much a social issue, the most significant social justice issue that faces us today.\u201d\u00a0 She said it &#8220;is crucial to be talking to workers and the trade unions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wlByCztK3Y8\">YouTube video clip<\/a>. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gptublog.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/film-from-autumn-conference-2009-shot.html\">Green Party Trade Union Group\u2019s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s Green Party is backing green jobs and just transition, and says the green economy plan should be formulated in consultation with trade unions. Green Party leader Caroline Lucas, speaking at a just transition workshop at the party&#8217;s autumn conference,\u00a0said the issue of green jobs and just transition are \u201censhrined\u201d in the party\u2019s manifesto. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[65,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}