Indeed they write: "The Greens manifesto addresses all of the proposals in FoE Scotland's benchmarking, and in the case of climate change it exceeds our benchmark."
It is once again a reminder of how far the other parties still have to go on climate change. All the main parties there accept that climate change is caused by human activity and must be tackled - which is important progress - and all five back some additional investment in renewables. Beyond that, though, there is little sign of progress just spectacular complacency. See Scottish Green party comment here and BBC report here.
Interestingly the message is starting to get through to the public - the Guardian reported a couple of weeks ago that neither of the main political parties, Labour or Tories has made a breakthrough in convincing the voters that they have the right policies to combat climate change.
The ICM poll showed Labour leading with 16 points to 14 for Tories in terms of who was the party with the best policies to tackle climate change. The Green party came third, with 13 points, and the Liberal Democrats was fourth, on eight points. This is an astonishing achievement in a media that largely ignores the Green party.
Twenty-two per cent of respondents said no party had the answers while 26% did not know. Asked to reflect on whether they trust Mr Cameron or Mr Brown to be more effective in tackling climate change, Mr Cameron polled 26% and Mr Brown 25%. More than a third, 36%, trusted neither of them, and 10% did not know.
Friends of the Earth analysis: the first figure is 'green' indicating full or substantial inclusion; then 'amber' partial, and the 'red' :
Conservative 0 0 10
Green 9 1 0
Labour 3 4 3
Lib Dem 3 5 2
SNP 3 4 3
SSP 5 3 2
| For more interesting discussion on parties views re economic growth see Gaian Economics blog here. | |||
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