Green New Deal
Progressive environmental agenda
The Green New Deal is a proposed U.S. policy framework combining aggressive climate action with economic reforms—renewable energy investment, infrastructure modernization, and job creation.
Named to evoke Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal of the 1930s, it became a political flashpoint after 2019: progressives champion the Green New Deal while opponents call it socialist overreach.
Eliminating fossil fuel emissions
- net-zeroBalanced emissions state
- emissionsSubstances released into air
- carbon-neutralNet-zero emissions state
- renewableCapable of restoration
solar · adaptation · mitigation · resilience
Impartial treatment or ownership value
- reparationsCompensation for historical wrongs
- anti-discriminationOpposing unfair differential treatment
- BIPOCNonwhite identity acronym
Official enactment of statutes
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
- infrastructureBasic physical systems
- progressiveFavoring reform and innovation
decarbonization
Eliminating fossil fuel emissions
- net-zeroBalanced emissions state
- emissionsSubstances released into air
- carbon-neutralNet-zero emissions state
renewable · solar · adaptation · mitigation · resilience
equity
Impartial treatment or ownership value
- reparationsCompensation for historical wrongs
- anti-discriminationOpposing unfair differential treatment
- BIPOCNonwhite identity acronym
legislation
Official enactment of statutes
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
- infrastructureBasic physical systems
- progressiveFavoring reform and innovation
retraining
Acquiring updated skills
- manufacturingIndustrial product creation
- climate policycarbon tax, emissions standards, emissions trading, cap and trade, net zero
- Climate Politicsclimate change, global warming, carbon tax, Paris Agreement, Kyoto Protocol
- controversiescontroversy, dispute, scandal, outcry, outrage
- Environmental Policyclimate policy, Clean Air Act, conservation policy, Clean Water Act, environmental regulation
- Government Programswelfare program, Great Society, healthcare reform, Medicare, Medicaid
- climateclimate change, climate, weather, global warming, temperature
Green New Deallaissez-faire economics
Minimal state economic involvement
Reaganomics · neoliberalism · deregulation · supply-side economics · austerity
Green New Dealincrementalism
Change through small steps
gradualism · status quo · do-nothingism · business as usual · carbon tax
green, deal, greens, greener, greenest, greenish, greenery, greening, greenness