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The Green Planning Commission

Building a new era of green democratic planning from the collapse of Bidenomics
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A panel discussion and reception to launch the Common Wealth Green Planning Commission and to celebrate Issue II of The BREAK—DOWN, Frontiers.

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Decarbonization and progressive politics are at an impasse following the collapse of Bidenomics into Trump’s more aggressive second term. The left has an opportunity to lead a new political coalition by defining a forward transformative program with concrete vision and institutional demands. Common Wealth is launching a two-year transatlantic Green Planning Commission to chart concrete and deliverable suite of policies to drive a new era of democratic planning and non-market economic coordination necessary deliver a comprehensive progressive agenda of ambitious decarbonization and the guarantee of fundamental economic rights necessary to address the overlapping economic emergencies of our age.

The BREAK—DOWN publishes new writing on the political economy of climate and ecological crisis. The magazine’s first issue, published May 2025, explored the rightward turn of global politics and backlash to climate action. Issue II, Frontiers, launches September 2025 with contributions focused on the new frontiers of climate struggle, from migration and geoengineering to data centres and extractive industry.

To mark the launch of the GPC, Common Wealth, The BREAK—DOWN, and Phenomenal World are convening a panel discussion on the future of climate and progressive politics from the ruins of Trump 2.0 and Bidenomics.

Join us during Climate Week in New York City for a conversation on the state of decarbonization in domestic and global context; the changing frontiers of climate action; and how green democratic planning can underpin a decisive progressive consensus, program, and winning coalition.

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Chaired by Adrienne Buller, the BREAK—DOWN

Featuring:

  • David Wallace-Wells, The New York Times
  • Tim Sahay, Johns Hopkins Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab
  • Melanie Brusseler, Common Wealth
  • Batul Hassan, Climate and Community Institute

Drinks Reception after the Panel Discussion

Location: Gerald D. Hines Gallery, AIA New York,

Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York

Time: 18:00 – 20:00

18:00 – 19:15: Panel Discussion

19:15-20:00: Drinks Reception