For years, Green New Deal frameworks have been debated across the world. How can climate change and economic inequality be addressed at the same time? The Covid-19 pandemic has further revealed the structural weaknesses in the global economy, heightening concerns about these two issues. Such crises cannot be tackled by national policies in the Global North alone. The same applies to developing a global Green New Deal (GND). What would it look like and how might it be financed?
The three pieces of the puzzle we have today are: the planet is one fire; we have millions of people who want to work; and we have increasingly cheaper, more reliable and more efficient technological solutions that can be deployed on a global scale to reduce both carbon emissions and economic inequality.
