PA061
The Green New Deal: From Resolution to Reality

Session ID#: 74231

Session Description:
The Green New Deal – a resolution introduced in the U.S. Congress – represents a transformative set of goals around addressing climate change through a 10-year national mobilization to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. The wide-ranging scope of the resolution has the potential to significantly change the course of global climate dialogue.

Yet, translating the Green New Deal goals to reality requires specific policy proposals that address carbon emissions. In this context, climate scientists, engineers, and social scientists have an important role to play in civil society by using their research to inform evidence-based policies.

In this session, we will invite panelists who, through their work in academia or government, will speak to the solutions and challenges in decarbonizing the U.S. economy. Panelists will address issues around specific goals of the Green New Deal including energy justice, equity, political economy of climate legislation, decarbonization, and implications for global climate action.

Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6319 Institutions [POLICY SCIENCES]
6615 Legislation and regulations [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Primary Convener:  Arvind P Ravikumar, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Systems Engineering, Harrisburg, PA, United States
Conveners:  Emily Grubert, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States and Daniel Sanchez, University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Arvind P Ravikumar, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Systems Engineering, Harrisburg, PA, United States
 
An Energy Policy Approach to Climate Change Mitigation (529296)
Morgan Bazilian, Colorado School of Mines, Payne Institute for Public Policy, Golden, CO, United States
 
Rural Communities and Working Lands in the Green New Deal (Invited) (537236)
Holly Buck, University of California Los Angeles, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
The Energy Innovation Act: How Does It Mesh with the Green New Deal? (557961)
Philip H Nelson, Retired, Golden, CO, United States
 
Decarbonization Slowdown: Why are Investor-Owned Electric Utilities in the United States Planning to Slow Their Pace of Decarbonization, and What are the Public Policy Implications? (600883)
David Pomerantz, San Francisco, CA, United States
 
Facilitating the Green New Deal Through History and Law (604957)
Benjamin Franta, Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA, United States; Stanford University, History, Stanford, CA, United States
 
An Introduction to the Green New Deal and its Implications For Climate Policy (613807)
Arvind P Ravikumar, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Systems Engineering, Harrisburg, PA, United States, Emily Grubert, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States and Daniel Sanchez, University of California Berkeley, of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
A Green New Fleet: Pathways for Rapid Energy Transitions in the U.S. Vehicle Sector (Invited) (621935)
Constantine Samaras1, Abdullah Alarfaj1 and W. Michael Griffin2, (1)Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (2)Carnegie Mellon University, Engineering and Public Policy, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
 
Designing Clean Energy Futures for the United States (631824)
Christopher Clack, Aditya Choukulkar, Brianna Cote, Sarah A McKee and Joshua Daniel Rhodes, Vibrant Clean Energy, LLC, Boulder, CO, United States
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