New Deal
Who created the New Deal in 1933?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt's New Deal
Who are the two senators who proposed the GND?
Markey and Oscario-Cortez
This 2022 legislation, signed under the Biden administration, aimed to reduce the U.S. budget deficit while investing in domestic clean energy.
IRA
The European Green New Deal aims to make the continent this by the year 2050, focusing on reducing emissions and promoting sustainability.
What is climate neutral?
What major historic event was happening during the creation of the New Deal?
The Great Depression
A GND argues that to "green the world," we need to transform the electricity grid, moving away from coal and oil to these clean energy sources.
Clean/renewable energy
What is one setback of the GND?
Extremely expensive, unrealistic expectations, increased power of federal government, or shrink economy
One of the main goals of the Inflation Reduction Act, passed in 2022, was to reduce the U.S. budget deficit while making investments in this type of energy.
What is domestic clean energy?
This key target of the European Green New Deal seeks to reduce gas emissions by this percentage by the year 2030.
55%
100
The idea of a GND is the basis of which US political party?
The Green Party
How many acres does the GND need to be put into action?
115 acres
When was the IRA passed?
2022
This term refers to the European Green New Deal’s goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and transitioning to renewable energy sources.
Decarbonization
This New Deal program provided unemployment insurance and old-age pensions, and it is still in place today.
Social Security
This 2009 proposal by the United Nations sought to address both climate change and global economic inequality through environmentally sustainable policies.
Global Green New Deal (GND)?
How many jobs did they project the GND to create?
20 million
IRA was passed, IRA is more specified solutions, GND is much broader
One of the key goals of the European Green New Deal is to eliminate reliance on these energy sources, which contribute heavily to global warming and pollution.
Fossil fuels
This agency, created by the New Deal, was tasked with providing jobs in infrastructure projects like bridges and roads.
Works Progress Administration
Who said this: “But we will only green the world when we change the very nature of the electricity grid – moving it away from dirty coal or oil to clean coal and renewables… Finally, like the New Deal, if we undertake the green version, it has the potential to create a whole new clean power industry to spur our economy into the 21st century.”
Friedman
By what year to they want to make the US carbon neutral?
2030
Does the IRA seek to reduce/grow the budget deficit?
The European Green New Deal was passed alongside this law, which enshrines the continent’s commitment to achieving climate neutrality by 2050.
European Climate Law?