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I'm Gwen Buck, I'm a policy advisor here at Green Alliance. On the 18th of November, the Prime Minister announced his 10-point plan to tackle the climate and nature crisis, creating what he describes as a green industrial revolution and creating 250,000 jobs. So I'm delighted to be joined today by Rebecca Newsom, who heads up the politics team at Greenpeace for this episode of The Insights podcast to help make sense of this announcement.

We're going to try and cut through the headlines to find out how this deal really sucks up for the

environment. The government has made the right decision here and got ahead of the curve. That is truly a

globally leading decision. Rebecca Newsom heads up the politics team at Greenpeace UK. Her role involves advocating

to UK politicians for policies to support decarbonisation, clean up our oceans and tackle

deforestation nationally and internationally. So before we get into exactly what's in the 10-point

plan, I just wanted to get to grips with the politics surrounding it.

So what we've got here is a Conservative Prime Minister, who's actually made an announcement around a green industrial revolution. So over to Rebs. What does this actually mean for the

Conservative Party to embrace the Green Jobs agenda? Well, I think it's a big deal that we've

now reached a point in UK politics where I think it was actually the BBC business editor acknowledged that no longer do we have government officials, treasury officials, conservative politicians looking at green things as costly, but they are now recognising that green

solutions actually deliver jobs. And that's an important milestone and really does start to

open up some political space to deliver the kinds of transformations that we really need across every

single sector of the economy from our electricity system to our transport system, to our

homes, to our natural environment. So it's a big moment and the 10-point plan went some way

towards that, but there are still many more

gaps and I'm sure we'll go on to that. It does really feel like a big moment when a conservative

government is really sort of embracing this agenda and I think that there's been so much work

being done on really making sure that sort of politics isn't divided on the climate agenda and I think

that's a real sort of testament to people working behind the scenes to really sort of make sure

the sort of messaging is down for you know for everyone to get on board with the climate agenda

so I think it's something yeah something really exciting for me I think personally as well

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