Max Ajl, Postdoctoral Fellow with the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University, will present his book, A People's Green New Deal (Pluto Press, 2021).

Within the past few years, the Green New Deal (GND) became the common language for Northern progressive climate politics, offering a seeming exit path from Northern and global social and ecological crises. This presentation will consider the contours of a possible global People’s Green New Deal, focusing on the multiple and interlocking elements for a global GND to become a program for North-South developmental convergence.

It lays out the planks of a common ecological program which takes seriously auto-centered development and sovereignty in the South and the North, braided with reparations for ecological debt, moves towards substantive decolonization, worldwide energy use convergence, shifts towards sustainable manufacturing and low-energy convivial infrastructures, and widespread investment in and attention to sustainable farming through agroecology and food sovereignty.

Registered attendees will receive the Zoom link via email. 

Presented by the Economics Department at The New School of Social Research.

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