Green New Deal
In the 116th United States Congress, it is a pair of resolutions, House Resolution 109 and S. Res. 59, sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey. There is consistently high support among Democrats for the proposal, whereas almost all Republicans are in opposition. The first U.S. politician to run on a Green New deal platform was Howie Hawkins of the Green Party when he ran for governor of New York in 2010.
About Green New Deal in brief
The Green New Deal is a proposed package of United States legislation that aims to address climate change and economic inequality. The name refers back to the New Deal, a set of social and economic reforms and public works projects undertaken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression. In the 116th United States Congress, it is a pair of resolutions, House Resolution 109 and S. Res. 59, sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey. There is consistently high support among Democrats for the proposal, whereas almost all Republicans are in opposition. The first U.S. politician to run on a Green New deal platform was Howie Hawkins of the Green Party when he ran for governor of New York in 2010. In April 2020, the European Parliament called to include the European Green Deal in the recovery program from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Green Party of the United States and Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein proposed a ‘Green New Deal’ beginning in 2012. For now, it’s a position that some candidates are taking to indicate that they want the American government to prepare for climate change as fully as Franklin Delano Roosevelt did once did to reinvigorate the country. A possible program for a ‘green’ New Deal was assembled by the think tank for Progress for 2018 in a November 2018 article. The concept was further popularized and put on a wider footing when the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) began to promote it in 2008.
On October 22, 2008, UNEP’s Executive Director Achim Steiner unveiled a Global Green Newdeal initiative. The idea aims to create jobs in ‘green industries’ thus boosting the world economy and curbing climate change at the same time. It has the potential to create a whole new clean power industry to spur our economy into the 21st century. This approach was subsequently taken up in Britain by the Green NewDeal Group, which published its eponymous report on July 21, 2008. There are proposals to include a’green’ Green Deal or parts of it, in the Recovery Program for the CoVid-19 Pandemic in the US in April 2020. In November 2018, Vogue stated, ‘There isn’t just one Green New Deals out there, there are several.’ The Green New deals are being proposed by a number of different groups, including the Center for American Progress, the Greenpeace Foundation, and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), as well as other environmental and social justice groups. In 2006, a GreenNewDeal Task Force was created as a plan for one hundred percent clean, renewable energy by 2030 utilizing a carbon tax, a jobs guarantee, free college, single-payer healthcare, and a focus on using public programs. Since 2006, the Greens have included the ‘green new deals’ in the platforms of multiple Green Party candidates, such as HowieHawkins’ 2014, and Jill Stein’s 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns.
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