Can the global Green New Deal movement survive the pandemic?

published on greengrowthknowledge.org, 30.04.2020 (Online)

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COVID-19 has quickly developed from a global health crisis into a severe economic one. But this may be an opportunity to restructure our economies and channel funds into green investments. Politically informed smart green transformations will prioritize win-wins over costlier reform processes that risk turning into dead ends and make sure as much environmental conditionality as possible is added to the non-green bailouts that will be part of economic recovery packages.

About the authors

Altenburg, Tilman

Economic Geography

Brandi, Clara

Economy and Political Science

Pegels, Anna

Economist

Further experts

Aleksandrova, Mariya

Climate risk governance 

Dippel, Beatrice

Comparatist 

Donnelly, Aiveen

Politcal Science 

Ekoh, Susan S.

Environmental Research 

Fuhrmann-Riebel, Hanna

Economy 

Goedeking, Nicholas

Comparative Political Economy 

Inacio da Cunha, Marcelo

Economics, Geography 

Kativu, Saymore Ngonidzashe

Geography 

Lehmann, Ina

Political Science 

Malerba, Daniele

Economy 

Mathis, Okka Lou

Political Scientist 

Never, Babette

Political Scientist 

Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo

Ecological economy 

Srigiri, Srinivasa Reddy

Agricultural Economist 

Tamasiga, Phemelo

Economics