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Executive considers Green economic plan Print E-mail
Thursday, 24 May 2007

First Minister Alex Salmond has agreed to consider Green suggestions that issues like social justice and sustainable development form part of the agenda for his new Council of Economic Advisers to examine.

Green MSP Patrick Harvie said the Greens shared the SNP aim of having independent economic advisers but urged Salmond to take other measures such as the impact on people’s quality of life, general well being and the environment into account when making economic decisions.

Harvie said: “I welcome the First Minister's agreement that the social and environmental impact of economic growth is important, and that specific expertise in this area must be brought into his Council of Advisers.

"Increasingly, people from across the political spectrum accept that the pursuit of unsustainable economic growth on a planet of finite resources causes social and environmental harm, including climate change, poverty and health inequalities.

"We welcome the new minority government in Scotland placing environmental issues at the top of its agenda, and for recognising this as a moral imperative. Greens will press them every day in the Scottish Parliament to live up to these commitments, and to change any aspects of their programme which are not consistent with the aspiration of creating a greener Scotland."
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