Jill Lindsey Harrison The Green New Deal (GND) calls for protecting the “frontline and vulnerable communities” most affected by climate change and other environmental harms: low-income, Indigenous, and racially marginalized communities. These well-documented environmental inequalities contribute to vast racial and class disparities in illness and death. Discussions about the GND focus on its calls for…
Brett Cease, Mark Purdon, and Ross Astoria The Green New Deal (GND) outlines a bold vision for transitioning towards a low-carbon economy. Canada’s experience with climate policy over the past decade offers important lessons for America’s GND given its similarities with a federal system of government and large regional economic differences. Canada’s experience informs GND planners…
Carmen Sirianni A Green New Deal (GND) must not only begin to reduce carbon emissions dramatically and help transition our economy and infrastructure towards renewable energy and green jobs, but must also help us develop the civic capacities we will need for a decades-long process of transition to a more resilient society capable of weathering…
Rebecca J. Romsdahl For optimists, the proposed Green New Deal (GND) is a glimmer of hope as society confronts grim scientific reports about the climate crisis and its cascading impacts. Developers and supporters of the GND seek to unite the long separate factions of environmental protection and socio-economic issues in order to address this broad,…
Ana-Maria Dimand In 2018, the Federal government spent around 890 billion dollars on contractual services and supplies. State and local governments spend an additional 1.72 trillion dollars annually. By leveraging its vast purchasing power, governments can put their enormous leverage behind the Green New Deal (GND) and encourage business to make a transition to low…
Sara Hughes Cities in the U.S. have been developing policies and programs that mirror the goals of the Green New Deal. From developing community solar projects, to retrofitting buildings to promote energy efficiency, cities now have experience navigating the political, economic, and institutional challenges of realizing an equitable low-carbon transition. Cities are early climate change…
Sanjay Patnaik While the recent introduction of the Green New Deal through resolutions in the House and Senate has generated a much-needed public discussion across the political spectrum, it is striking that neither proposal includes an explicit call for instituting a carbon price. This ignores the fundamental nature of climate change as a negative externality…
Donal Brown, Stephen Hall, Benjamin K. Sovacool, and Tom Bailey The Green New Deal (GND) has become a rallying cry for progressives on both sides of the Atlantic. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s GND manifesto has received significant attention in the UK , while the UK’s GND Group have been calling for a low carbon stimulus since the…
Siddharth Sareen What can the US learn from India’s renewable energy politics to shape the Green New Deal (GND) narrative? Despite political, economic, and energy infrastructure challenges in sub-national regions, India’s federal government is rapidly rolling out renewable energy across the country. This commentary argues that clear national level renewable energy targets are useful in…
Sebastian Sewerin, Nicolas Schmid, Bjarne Steffen, Martin Beuse, Florian Egli, Anna Geddes, Léonore Haelg, Lynn Kaack, Abhishek Malhotra, and Tobias S. Schmidt Policymakers supporting the Green New Deal (GND) should carefully review the lessons from the German energy transition. Germany was early in adopting effective low-carbon energy policies, and crucially, Germany’s flagship policy was ‘sticky’:…