Convenors: Ivana Isailović, Adebayo Majekolagbe, and Nona Tamale.

Introduction

While the concept of a Green New Deal was proposed prior to the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis as a way of revitalizing and rebranding neoliberal capitalism as ‘green’, it was not until a decade later that a more explicitly Keynesian vision of a Green New Deal became an increasingly popular framework for talking about climate, industrial, and social policies in a unified manner attentive to the conjoined crisis of inequality, labor precarity, and ecological degradation. The notion of a Green New Deal has shifted discourse away from how much addressing climate change will cost, and instead opened conversations about the political potential of climate policy to ‘guarantee [among other things] climate-friendly work and no-carbon housing and free public transit’

Contributors:

Julia Dehm and Usha Natarajan: A Planetary Green New Deal

Adebayo Majekolagbe: Global Justice and the Transition: Wellbeing and Differentiation

Gamze Erdem Turkelli and Janet Jebichii Sego: European Green Deal, EU's Global Gateway, and Financing for (un)just Green Transitions

Ivana Isailović: The political economy of the European Green Deal: Neoliberalism and the (re)production of inequalities

Christabel M. Eboso: Green Deals and Reproductive Justice: A Promise of Just Transition

Godwin E. K. Dzah: Africa and the (Mis-)Promise of  Green Finance