Climate change has become a real-world emergency, with warming temperatures, changes in rainfall patterns, and the growth in the number of storms and heat waves, the consequences of which present a significant risk to ecosystems, economies, human health, and well-being. To tackle this challenge, the social and economic aspects are lagging. Here, the Green New Deal (GND) proposal has come up as a new set of policies that can address climate change, including reduced greenhouse gases while tackling economic downfall and social inequality simultaneously. In this paper, we used a comparative analytical method using multiple case study analysis to examine cross-cases of four prominent GND programs, including the U.S. GND, the European Union GND, the South Korean GND, and Boston’s GND. The cross-case comparison was conducted based on several goals, policy mechanisms, priority areas, funding and implementation strategies, and a few other dimensions. Furthermore, the result of the comparative analysis reveals common themes and differences among the GND frameworks. By the comparison of four GND frameworks, this paper also suggests best practices for the implication of the official GND framework in India for a just and inclusive transition toward a carbon-neutral economy.
Anwar et al. (Thu,) studied this question.