Perspectives On A Global Green New Deal

Political leaders are committed to forcing secret trade and investment agreements that prioritise neoliberal privatisation over environment standards.

Climate breakdown is the consequence of a flawed development system that we have considered normal for too long.

New Green Deals must include these decolonial and feminist approaches, especially as we witness the attacks on indigenous peoples.

The inequality embedded in peoples’ ability to be protected by climate-related disasters already underway is not inevitable.

A Global Green New Deal needs to nurture a twenty-first century commons in place of an economy based on privatising humanity’s basic needs.

Building workers’ movements for a just transition and against false solutions to the climate crisis.

The coronavirus pandemic hit Filipino workers hard - and set back a just transition to a renewable energy economy.

A transition to a new economy sustainable within our climate and ecological limits must also bring justice for womxn.

Mining that destroys communities and the ecosystem can have no part in any Green New Deal.

Workers will build the green transition: their rights and lives must be enhanced in the process.

'Perspectives on a Global Green New Deal' brings together voices from around the world calling for international climate action.

If the coronavirus pandemic provides an indication of our collective ability to cope with shocks, the future of the climate crisis does not look pretty.