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Sign petitation to support European Green New Deal
March 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
Last week the European Greens (EGP) have launched a petition for a Green New Deal which draws also from my study about the job potential for Green Collar Jobs in Europe.
As much as I agree with the political demands and idea of the petition, I think the EGP could have made a better effort in consulting about the technicalities of these European (online) signature campaigns. Campaigners from OneSeat.eu or europeanreferendum.eu could have pointed out the following points:
- The petition should attract a wider audience if it ran under its own domain name and not within the European Greens’ website. – Why would any NGO link up to a campaign that is so obviously run by a political party?
- What is the concrete demand of the petitition? 5 million new jobs? Who is not in favour of that?! I am sure that a petition “Europe needs change and we need your voice to make that change happen. Lets create 5 million jobs – Europe needs a Green New Deal!” would not be formally accepted by any authority.
- There is no counter. How do I know how many people have signed up? Why can I not have my name published (if I want to)?
- Would a (promotion) banner not be useful for people like me to include it in their blog comments?
- Just looking at it again while writing this, the petition really appears like a semi-hidden sub-site of the EGP campaign website which in itself has not really been noticed by too many people from what I can tell… Will anybody besides Green email lists notice?
Here is the full text of the petition from the website www.europeangreens.eu/petition:
“Europe needs change and we need your voice to make that change happen. Lets create 5 million jobs – Europe needs a Green New Deal! There is a way to combat climate change, and there is an answer to the economic crisis. Introducing a Green New Deal we can fight both at the same time. We need policies which will:
* create green collar jobs for five million Europeans within 5 years
* mobilise a cohesive strategy for private and public investment in the green economy that amounts to 500 billion Euros over the next five years (0,75% of the GDP of the EU)
* keep energy affordable
* help to fight climate change and green the European economyThe Green New Deal will set the European economy on a sustainable path and place Europe at the forefront of the Green industrial revolution.
PetitionSign-up on the right to support the core of the European Green New Deal, investing 500 Bn € to employ five million Europeans in greening Europe by 2014.
Your signatures will be submitted to the new elected Presidents of the European Parliament and the Commission as well as to the Swedish EU Presidency before the Copenhagen Climate negotiations on the Post Kyoto Agreement. Your signature will give voice to the urgent need for a New Green Deal inspired policy to be launched.
If you want to know more information click here.
By signing the petition you are allowing us to contact you during the campaign and send you information on the national campaign in your country.
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