Policy Brief
May 18, 2021by Bhumika Muchhala
A Feminist and Decolonial Global Green New Deal: Principles, Paradigms and Systemic Transformations
A feminist and decolonial Global Green New Deal (GGND) resists the socially constructed hierarchies of racial, gender, class, caste sexuality and ability based inequalities which underpin colonial, neoliberal, and capitalist structures, systems and discourses.
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It recognizes that the ecological collapse we are experiencing in climate change is the direct result of an unequal social contract in which these hierarchies shape our social and economic relations. A decolonial stance means that we cannot deny that we live in a world where black, brown, feminine, queer and working-class people endure acts of dehumanization. A feminist and decolonial GGND creates a new paradigm that forges active links between climate change, racialized and gendered labor exploitation, trade rules and economic structures that reproduce inequalities both within and among nations. It is critical for a feminist and decolonial GGND to be global, as no country or region exists in isolation in a world that is inextricably interdependent through trade, human, capital and climate flows. An internationalist, intersectional, global justice and decolonial historical lens and consciousness is indispensable to a future that is ecologically, economically and socially just.
The Feminist Coalition on the Green New Deal has articulated a set of ten substantive and intersectional issues that frame a feminist agenda for the U.S. proposal for a Green New Deal. This feminist platform includes confronting institutional patriarchy and racism, recognizing systemic oppressions in policymaking, prioritizing Indigenous peoples’ rights and leadership, including binding legal recognition of Indigenous land rights, real enforcement of the vital framework of Free, Prior and Informed Consent, and recognition of the Rights of Nature. The coalition's principles also confront exploitative and unsustainable production patterns and environmental racism, advance reproductive justice and ensure democratically controlled, community-led solutions, while rejecting false and harmful responses to climate change, such as those led by the private sector, that fail to address root causes. This feminist agenda asserts a bold and critical reminder that historically marginalized and oppressed communities are at the frontlines of climate change and must therefore be prioritized in the formulation and objectives of a feminist and decolonial global green new deal.
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