[gep-ed] final call: Deadline, May 1 THE GREEN NEW DEAL: PATHWAYS TO A LOW CARBON ECONOMY

[Aseem Prakash]

FINAL CALL


Deadline: May 1, 2019







Call for Contributions



Public Administration Review’s Blog (Bully Pulpit) Symposium:



THE GREEN NEW DEAL: PATHWAYS TO A LOW CARBON ECONOMY





Guest Editors

Nives Dolšak

School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, University of Washington, Seattle



Aseem Prakash

Department of Political Science and the Center for Environmental Politics

University of Washington, Seattle





Objective and Rationale


In 2007, Thomas Friedman called for the Green New 
Deal. 
In 2010 report prepared for the United Nations Environment Program, Edward 
Barbier outlined a plan for a Global Green New 
Deal.
 But the idea of a Green New Deal captured popular imagination when Rep. 
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) formally 
presented the Green New Deal resolution to the US Congress (House Resolution 
109 & 
Senate Resolution 
59) in 2019. 
Their Green New Deal (GND) proposal outlines an ambitious vision to transform 
America into a low carbon economy alongside addressing equity and justice 
issues. Several 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls have endorsed it fully 
while others have endorsed it in spirit. The GND also has its critics. Speaker 
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has shrugged it off as a "green dream." Virtually, all 
Republican leaders have opposed it. They have dubbed it as socialist, 
un-American, and so on.



Very few dispute that climate change is real and requires urgent attention. The 
recent IPCC report and the US Federal Climate 
Assessment
 paint a grim picture of climate change. Yet, climate policy remains a 
polarizing issue. Moreover, under the Trump Administration, the US has 
withdrawn from the Paris Agreement. It seeks to roll back the Clean Power Plan 
and dilute the fuel economy standards. But even at the global level, climate 
policies are facing a political challenge. Carbon emissions increased in 2018 
and countries continue to invest in coal. Rural France has violently protested 
against a carbon tax.  Political leaders in Australia and Brazil seem to have 
abandoned their countries' Paris pledges.



In the absence of federal leadership on climate policy, US States have emerged 
as climate leaders. But even climate leaders face challenges. California has 
canceled the high-speed rail project linking San Francisco with Los Angles 
citing cost overruns. Washington state voted down citizen initiatives for a 
carbon tax in 2016 and again in 2018. Even Seattle, whose Mayor took the 
leadership role in founding the US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement in 2005, 
is witnessing rising carbon emissions.



Given these policy challenges, this blog symposium will feature short, 
1,000-word commentaries that examine both the successes and failures in the 
transition to a low carbon economy. Given the short time frame for climate 
action, which GND elements should be prioritized for implementation and why?  
Which administrative units ought to take the lead? What sorts of policy 
instruments should be employed? How will it be financed? What is the role of 
firms and nonprofits in the GND rollout? How can non-climate goals get 
incorporated in climate policies?



Given the expansive vision for GND, all policy scholars and practitioners are 
invited to explore how their work and expertise might relate to GND, and more 
broadly to the transition to a low carbon economy. The commentaries could 
address issues such as (but not limited to) the following:



  *   What sort of administrative structures are required to implement GND? To 
what extent is the experience of FDR’s New Deal relevant? Might the creation of 
the Department of Homeland Security, a more recent case of administrative 
innovation in response to 9/11, offer a template on how to think (or not think) 
about the administrative challenges in the policy translation of the GND?

  *   Which specific elements of the GND can be implemented in the next 10 
years, in what sequence, and why?


  *   How might the GND at the state and city level look like if the federal 
government supports it? What if it remains uninterested in implementing it? 
What new policies might these subnational units adopt, beyond what they are 
already doing so? How will they fund them given that unlike the federal 
government, they cannot run sustained levels of budget deficits?


  *   Which elements of the GND offer the possibility of bipartisan support? 
Wind energy is often suggested as an issue area where both sides, at least at 
the state 

[gep-ed] Application deadline extended! RE: Summer School on geoengineering governance, August 5 - 11, 2019: Applications now open

[Reynolds, Jesse]

Dear colleagues,

The deadline for applications to the 2019 International Geoengineering 
Governance Summer School until May 10.

The Summer School will bring together an international group of leading experts 
with post-graduate students and early-career researchers  for intensive, 
collaborative explorations of the societal, political, governance, and ethical 
aspects of geoengineering - including both large-scale Carbon removal/Negative 
Emissions, and Solar Geoengineering.

We invite applications to participate from post-graduate students, early-career 
researchers, and professionals and researchers seeking to develop their 
expertise in the field.

Further information and application instructions are below and at: 
https://law.ucla.edu/CEGOVsummerschool

-Jesse

Jesse Reynolds
Emmett / Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy
Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/jesse-reynolds/
legal-planet.org/contributor/jreynolds/
twitter.com/JesseLReynolds
jreynolds.org
My book The Governance of Solar Geoengineering: Managing Climate Change in the 
Anthropocene will be published by Cambridge 
University Press in late August.

From: Reynolds, Jesse
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 19:44
To: 'gep-ed@googlegroups.com' 
Subject: Summer School on geoengineering governance, August 5 - 11, 2019: 
Applications now open

Dear colleagues,

The Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the UCLA School 
of Law, in partnership with the Solar Radiation Management Governance 
Initiative, the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment, and the Harvard Solar 
Geoengineering Research Project, is pleased to announce the Sixth International 
Summer School on Geoengineering Governance.

The summer school will take place from August 5 to 11, 2019 at the Banff Centre 
in Banff, Alberta, Canada.  I invite you to circulate this information to 
colleagues and students who might be interested in participating in the summer 
school.  Instructions on how to apply are now posted at 
https://law.ucla.edu/CEGOVsummerschool, with an application deadline of April 
30.

As the severity of climate-change risks and the inability of current response 
efforts to adequately limit risks become clear, climate engineering 
technologies are receiving increasing attention and generating increasing 
controversy. These technological responses appear to offer substantial 
risk-reduction opportunities, serious new risks, and novel and potentially 
severe governance challenges.

To help advance the debate on these high-stakes responses, the 2019 summer 
school will bring together an international group of leading experts with 
graduate students and junior researchers, to facilitate intensive, 
collaborative explorations of the societal, political, governance, and ethical 
implications of geoengineering responses.

The focus of the summer school will primarily be on the societal and governance 
challenges posed by geoengineering, both near-term challenges related to 
research, development, and capacity-building, and longer-term, more speculative 
challenges related to potential future operational use and consequences. The 
topics addressed by the 2019 summer school will include the societal and 
governance challenges posed by both solar geoengineering and negative emissions 
technologies, including their current and potential interactions - with each 
other, and with the primary climate-change responses of mitigation and 
adaptation.

Following a set of focused briefings to introduce key concepts and 
controversies, the summer school will be organized around collectively 
generated discussion sessions and working groups that aim to advance 
understanding and explore concrete assessment and governance approaches. The 
summer school's working groups will aim to seed continuing collaborations to 
advance research, assessment, and policy development to inform how society can 
responsibly shape these technologies' research, development, and - if 
appropriate - use, to contribute to effective management of climate change.

The Summer School invites applications from graduate students and early-career 
researchers with interests in the social and governance issues posed by climate 
engineering, working in any relevant field. The Summer School is also suitable 
for NGO, government, or other professionals working in related areas who seek 
an intensive experience to develop expertise in geoengineering governance.  The 
Summer School aims to bring new voices and perspectives into geoengineering 
debates, particularly from developing countries. Consequently, while prior 
experience working on issues related to geoengineering is preferable, it is not