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Conservatives
www.conservatives.com
Website of the Conservative Party, which includes a section where you can read and debate the party's Blueprint for a Green Economy.

Friends of the Earth
www.foe.co.uk
Campaigning organisation, which is part of an extensive worldwide environmental network. Read a recent statement on green taxes.

Green Party
www.greenparty.org.uk
The Green Party aims to create a just, equitable and sustainable society, working primarily through the electoral system. You can read a Green Party statement arguing that money raised from green taxes should be used for environmental spending.

How the impact of 'green' taxes on the poorest homes could best be reduced
www.jrf.org.uk/pressroom/releases/271004.asp
Summary of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report, Green Taxes and Charges: Reducing their impact on low-income households, with details of how to obtain it.

Labour
www.labour.org.uk
Website of the Labour Party, with a section on Labour's policies on climate change and energy, and its response to the Stern Review.

Liberal Democrats
www.libdems.org.uk
The Liberal Democrats have moved green issues up their political agenda and the website has a large section on the environment and the party's green switch policy.

Most Britons willing to pay green taxes to save the environment
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/polls/story/
0,,1717302,00.html
Article on the Guardian/ICM poll which showed that most people approve of a green tax to discourage behaviour that harms the environment.

Save the planet in 10 steps
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/george_monbiot
/2006/10/stern.html
Environmentalist George Monbiot's plan for drastic but affordable action in response to the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.

Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/stern_review_
economics_climate_change/sternreview_index.cfm
The Stern Report and documents that relate to it.

The Ecologist
www.theecologist.org
Influential monthly environmental affairs magazine, which includes a number of articles on green taxes. Its editor, Zac Goldsmith, oversees the Conservative Party's Quality of Life Policy Group.

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