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David Arnold is a policy officer for the trade union UNISON, where he covers climate change, energy and housing. He chairs the TUC’s working group on sustainability.

Web: http://www.unison.org.uk
  • Environment

    Let councils lead green economic growth

    13th October 2011 — Filed under: Environment

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    On a day that unemployment reaches levels not seen for 17 years, The new green team: Local Government, sustainable energy, jobs and skills, a timely report from UNISON shows both the huge potential of council-led sustainable energy projects.

    The study, by consultants APSE, highlights policy and funding barriers standing in their way.  It’s a perfect example of how ideology can run counter to the needs of a green economy. Government may know that action is needed.  But they are also so uncomfortable about the public sector playing a role that they appear to be content for important opportunities to fall by the wayside.

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  • Environment

    Bonn Diary #4: Fresh start for Just Transition

    5th June 2010 — Filed under: Environment

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    This is the first time I have made it into the UN climate talks.  Last time I came it was to Copenhagen in December.  The powers that be got nervous about the number of observers and like many others I was stuck outside, standing under a flyover in the snow.  This time I breezed in and have spent the day in large stuffy rooms, whilst outside it is warm and sunny.  The irony is that at UNISON we talk about much of our work on climate change under the heading changing the climate at work!  The fact that there are fewer observers here this time is down to this being a staging post on the route to the next Conference of the Parties (COP), which will take place in Mexico in December.

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