Harpreet Kaur Paul and Dalia Gebriel (curators and editors), Perspectives on a Green New Deal

Contributors: Kavita Naidu (International Human Rights Lawyer, Australia) and Ken Henshaw (We the People, Centre for Social Studies and Development, Nigeria)

Chair: Christine Schwobel-Patel

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Promises of a ‘Green New Deal’ have captured the imagination of climate activists, scholars and policymakers across Europe and North America. In combining the struggle against climate breakdown with the fight for economic and social justice, the Green New Deal framing makes a long overdue case for a holistic, proactive economic, social, cultural and political response to climate change in the Global North. However, unless grounded in principles of global justice, the promise of green jobs and infrastructure in the Global North could simply mean a continuation of colonial patterns of inequality and exploitation around the world. What would it mean for the Green New Deal to be global? How can we think beyond the boundaries of national politics? What would it take for the transition to democratic, decarbonised, resilient and reparative systems to work for the global many, not the few? Perspectives on a Global Green New Deal, published by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and The Leap tackles these questions head on. Harpreet Kaur Paul and Dalia Gebrial bring together climate justice insights experts from around the world, to explore the key themes that will define the future of any equitable and just global green new deal’