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Green New Deal (GND)
2100 Project: An Atlas for the Green New Deal
GND Group [UK]
· Focus work on "politics and economics, and the climate, nature, and inequality crises." They
support "a renewables revolution, create thousands of green-collar jobs and rein in the
distorting power of the finance sector while making more low-cost capital available for
pressing priorities."
Green New Deal Resource Hub @ Global Center for Climate Justice
Gulf South for a Green New Deal
NGOs
Environmental Voter Project [USA]
· Works to encourage public engagement in their local community and online regarding
environmental laws and policies. It also encourages the public to hold elected officials
accountable for their actions and works to promote pro-environment candidates.
Party politics
Environment @ Democratic Party
· They are "committed to curbing the effects of climate change, protecting America's
natural resources, and ensuring the quality of our air, water, and land for current
and future generations."
· Is an "evolving document, a living work-in-progress that expresses our commitment to creating
wise and enduring change in specific policies and in the political process."
· see sections 2.2 and 2.3
· Strives to protect the environment through a "clear definition and enforcement of individual rights and
responsibilities regarding resources like land, water, air, and wildlife." They also oppose any
governmental "control of energy pricing, allocation, and production."
· The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment
· The party represents "America's growers, producers, farmers, ranchers, foresters, miners, commercial
fishermen, and all those who bring from the earth the crops, minerals, energy, and the bounties of our
seas that are the lifeblood of our economy."
2020 presidential election
A guide to how 2020 Democrats plan to fight climate change @ Vox
Climate Change and the 2020 Presidential Candidates @ NRDC Action Fund
Where 2020 Democrats stand on climate change @ Washington Post
Trump Administration
· "The outgoing Trump administration is likely to take numerous midnight actions on environmental,
climate and energy issues during the presidential transition through Inauguration Day on January 20.
The State Impact Center will be tracking these breaking developments here."
Harvard Law Environment & Energy Program
USA ~ Environmental politics
Contents of this page:
· Green new deal (GND)
· NGOs
· Party politics
· 2020 presidential election information
· Trump Administration monitoring
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