Memo: Green New Deal Retrospective
Since we launched our Green New Deal scorecard, Democratic candidates — moderates and progressives alike — have released plans that leverage more ambitious emissions targets, a broader array of federal policy tools, and more robust jobs and justice programs.
Data For Progress devised a Green New Deal scorecard identifying 48 components of a Green New Deal. Candidates got half credit for Green New Deal concepts that they acknowledged, but did not lay out a clear policies or actions to address, and full credit for those that they had policy prescriptions for in their plan; however, these scores did not consider the merits of any particular policy mechanism.
In addition to our 48-component GND rubric, we have created a sub-rubric to dig deeper into Democratic candidates’ approach to environmental justice in their climate plans, including rectifying historic environmental damages, establishing democratic and inclusive governance processes, and enacting core climate justice measures.
