1) How should we assess the strengths and limits of the Global Green New Deal? In particular, what critiques might emerge from a Global South perspective?

Vocabulary flashcards based on the lecture notes regarding environmental policy, debt, and sustainability models.

Global Green New Deal

A broad climate proposal linking decarbonization to jobs, public investment, infrastructure, and social policy.

People’s Green New Deal

Ajl’s eco-socialist and anti-imperialist version based on climate debt, agroecology, food sovereignty, decommodification, public ownership, and decolonization.

Climate/Ecological Debt

The idea that wealthy countries owe reparations to poorer countries for historical emissions, extraction, and lost development space.

Green Colonialism

Environmental policy that reproduces colonial power by excluding, displacing, or controlling local communities in the name of protecting nature.

Eco-modernism

The belief that technology can solve environmental crisis while maintaining economic growth and current consumption patterns.

Agroecology

Farming based on biodiversity, local knowledge, soil health, food sovereignty, and ecological sustainability.