Green New Deal

As the COVID-19 crisis has further highlighted, local public services are essential to achieve a sustainable and democratic life.

The Green Deal needs a nuanced approach which recognises the historical roots of today’s inequalities.

In a reinvigorated debate, a political reading of proposals put forward to confront the climate emergency is necessary.

Producing and consuming in a manner that is more respectful of biodiversity means rethinking international trade and the rules that govern it.

The Green European Journal has put together a selection mapping some of the major currents that have shaped political ecology in recent years and which continue to do so.

In the USA, the inequality and climate crises are increasingly seen as one and the same and the Left has seized on the Green New Deal as the answer.

The European Green Deal is being pursued as an economic matter. In a geopolitical world, it needs to be geopoliticised.

Does the ecological transition offer a route away from socio-economic stagnation?

The Green New Deal is a vision for social and environmental transformation. What would it mean to have one in Europe?

Longstanding problems with EU climate policy have been overcome and real money is on the table for the transition. The question is will it be enough.