A Green COVID-19 Recovery: Lessons from the ARRA
December 16, 2020
By Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Kristina Karlsson
In a recent report, Green Recovery: The Case for Climate-Forward Stimulus Policies in America’s COVID-19 Recession Response, authors Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Kristina Karlsson, Bracken Hendricks, Kitty Richards, and David Arkush argued the importance of enacting climate-centered stimulus policy as a response to the COVID-19 recession.
In this follow-up brief, Gunn-Wright and Karlsson examine the green investments included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the stimulus response to the Great Recession. In conversation with three of ARRA’s climate policy architects, the authors discuss the successes of those green investments, the limitations policymakers faced, and how a new round of green stimulus can be designed to further advance climate mitigation goals.
Investing in our future now is vital for an equitable recovery.
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Rhiana Gunn-Wright
Senior FellowAs a senior fellow and resident author with the Roosevelt Society, Rhiana Gunn-Wright is working on a book about the climate crisis.
Kristina Karlsson
Deputy Director, Climate PolicyAs deputy director of the climate policy team, Kristina Karlsson leads Roosevelt's work on democratic implementation of the renewable transition, equity and environmental justice, fossil fuel wind-down and climate finance, and the intersection of climate and macroeconomics.