The Labor Network for Sustainability Outlines How to Make the Green New Deal Work
The Labor Network for Sustainability has released “18 Strategies for a Green New Deal: How to Make a Climate Mobilization Work,” a paper intended to “stimulate discussion of the Green New Deal among labor, environmental, progressive, policy, and justice constituencies.” The paper, authored by LNS Research and Policy Director Jeremy Brecher, details 18 strategies for implementing the Green New Deal resolution’s broad goals, organized in three parts:
- Establish Green New Deal mobilization agencies
- Use regulatory powers to freeze, phase-out, and replace all fossil fuel infrastructure
- Use government to plan the transition
- Establish Green New Deal agencies for reorganizing economic sectors
- Use government to reshape the market
- Use the tools of macroeconomic policy
- Use the powers of government to rectify past and present injustices
- Protect low-income energy consumers
- Empower community-led initiatives
- Democratize democracy
- Leave no worker behind
- Guarantee jobs for all
- Ensure workers rights and good union jobs
- Capture the benefits of the transition to fossil free energy
- Make the polluters pay
- Cut wasteful and unnecessary spending
- Mobilize investment
- Support and fund a Global Green New Deal
The mission of the Labor Network for Sustainability is to engage workers and communities in building a transition to a society that is ecologically sustainable and economically just.