There’s No Such Thing as Climate-Neutral Stimulus
Just days before the U.S. election, the Roosevelt Institute has some advice for lawmakers on their pandemic recovery policy.
Months into a pandemic that has caused unprecedented economic destruction and just days away from an election that will have a profound effect on the future of climate policy, the Roosevelt Institute has issued a new set of recommendations outlining how the U.S. federal government would “solve multiple problems with a single investment of time and money.”
“The choice facing policymakers is not ‘climate-friendly’ policies or ‘climate-neutral’ policies,” the authors write in their report, titled “A Green Recovery.” “All stimulus policies have the potential to affect emissions levels, even if they do not directly relate to climate or emissions.”