Green New Deal

English

(US politics) A set of proposed public policy changes to address climate change along with achieving other social aims like job creation and reducing economic inequality.
- 2007 January 19, Thomas L. Friedman, “A Warning From the Garden”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
  The right rallying call is for a “Green New Deal.” The New Deal was not built on a magic bullet, but on a broad range of programs and industrial projects to revitalize America. Ditto for an energy New Deal.
- 2021 February 21, Naomi Klein, “Why Texas Republicans Fear the Green New Deal”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
  The claims are outlandish. The Green New Deal is, among other things, a plan to tightly regulate and upgrade the energy system so the United States gets 100 percent of its electricity from renewables in a decade.