How to make the Green New Deal global

Domestic action isn't enough. We need to make other countries come along with us.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Earlier this week, socialists in Spain gave fans of a Green New Deal here in America something to cheer for. Their party won the country's latest round of snap elections, and central to the socialists' campaign platform was a sweeping program to cut Spain's carbon emissions 90 percent by the middle of the century, through mandates and massive public investment.

But that victory also raises a challenge: For climate efforts to actually be meaningful, some version of the Green New Deal (GND) will need to happen in every major country. Even if the U.S. manages to pass some version of the initiative, how could it possibly take it global?

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.