Tom Athanasiou on a Global Green New Deal

Tom Athanasiou has an article in The Nation, entitled Only a Global Green New Deal Can Save the Planet, in which he introduces the argument that a fair shares approach to international cooperation is essential to any even plausibly successful global climate transition. Specifically, the article proposes that a global Green New Deal can best be kickstarted through a proliferation of national green new deals that are structured, as per the plan from US presidential candidate and Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, to support international cooperation as well as domestic transformation.  The side effect, a very welcome one, would be the animation of the Paris Agreement and its not-yet-functioning ambition mechanisms, he argues.