A radical vision for a Green New Deal

A radical vision for a Green New Deal

Thursday 21st January 2021

13.00 - 13.45

How can 2021 become a turning point for progress on climate change?

With COP26 on the horizon and the incoming Biden administration poised to rejoin the Paris Agreement, climate action will be high on the agenda in 2021. But to make urgently necessary progress towards decarbonisation, the world must go further, embedding transformative economic changes across the board and building on them in the decades to come.

This will mean connecting the climate crisis to economic strife and addressing both together, understanding the intersections of social, economic, and environmental policy. It will mean directing investment towards communities that need it most, ending extractive and exploitative practices, and tackling the root causes of our problems instead of just addressing their symptoms.

The authors of A Planet to Win join us to discuss the Green New Deal as the most promising and ambitious plan we have at our disposal for saving the planet whilst building a more just society. They explore the principles, practical changes, and alliances we will need to embrace to set ourselves free from what currently binds us, and reflect on what the political opening created by crisis could mean. Business as usual can’t continue, they say, if we’re to have a future – but that what awaits us next could be much better.

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Speaker: Alyssa Battistoni, Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment; Daniel Aldana Cohen, Assistant professor of sociology, University of Pennsylvania; Thea Riofrancos, Assistant professor of political science, Providence College

Further Reading:

A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal by Kate Aronoff, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Alyssa Battistoni and Thea Riofrancos