Climate security

Greens support science-based policies to curb climate change. We have an ambitious plan to make drastic changes quickly to avert global catastrophe. We will expend maximum effort to preserve a planet friendly to life as we know it by curtailing greenhouse gas emissions and actively removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

 

We support:

• Creating energy efficiency standards and conservation measures that create massive reductions in energy use over the next 20-30 years
• Establishing a national zero waste policy.  The less we consume and throw away, the less we will need to produce and replace
• Establishing carbon taxes on fossil fuels, to reflect the environmental cost of their extraction and use
• Eliminating subsidies for fossil fuels, nuclear power, biomass and waste incineration, and biofuels
• Repaying our climate debt by paying for the costs of adaptation to climate change in countries with less responsibility for climate change
• Creating an inclusive program to train workers for the new, clean energy economy focusing on both the environment and social justice
• An immediate end to the use of nuclear power
• Local, organic agriculture