- Global Green New Deal

Catalog description

This course engages with the theoretical and policy literature on what might be termed a Global Green New Deal (Global GND), which is an attempt to simultaneously address global inequality, socio-economic exclusion, and the negative impact of climate change on overall quality of life. The course takes an interdisciplinary approach drawing from the literature on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), decolonization, economic development, structural reparations, ecological economics, international law, and climate science to assess the case for a global network of truth and reconciliation commissions on colonial and climate reparations. The course pays particular attention to the structural differences between developed and developing countries, and highlights the importance of South-South cooperation and South-North solidarity as the economic and geopolitical prerequisites for building systemic resilience to the inevitable consequences of climate change.