How Joe Biden’s climate plan compares to the Green New Deal – CBS News

“Joe Biden’s climate plan isn’t everything, but it isn’t nothing at all,” one leading climate activist told CBS News.

Their exchange reveals the needle that Biden is threading in his campaign, between trying to win the confidence of climate crusaders on the left while not alienating more moderate voters in the middle.

Although it is true that Biden’s climate plan does not fully match the Green New Deal, there are many similarities. That’s because over the last few months the Biden campaign made a deliberate effort to consult with more progressive factions of the party through the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force, a committee which included climate and environmental justice activists like the Sunrise Movement — a group instrumental in the design of the Green New Deal. Biden has committed to some, but not all, of the task force’s recommendations.

“Joe Biden’s climate plan isn’t everything, but it isn’t nothing at all,” Varshini Prakash, the founder of Sunrise Movement, told CBS News in an interview for the recent CBSN special “Climate in Crisis.” She said if he is able to make good on those promises, it would represent a “seismic shift in climate policy at the federal level.”

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