The Evergreen Action Plan 2.0, an ambitious, actionable policy plan for the next four years to continue delivering on climate, jobs, and justice

Today, Evergreen Action released The Evergreen Action Plan 2.0: The Promise of Continued Climate Leadership, an ambitious, actionable policy plan that lays out the path forward for the next president to build on the historic achievements of the Biden-Harris administration and secure a safer, healthier, and fairer future for all Americans. The plan is a follow-up to the original Evergreen Action Plan, launched in 2020, which energized climate voters to help the Biden-Harris ticket defeat Donald Trump in 2020 and set the agenda for the most impactful administration tackling the climate crisis in U.S. history.

“We wrote the playbook that helped the Biden-Harris administration achieve historic progress on addressing the climate crisis. Today, we’re doing it again,” said Evergreen Action Executive Director Lena Moffitt. “The next four years will determine whether we continue on this path of progress or veer sharply backward and deeper into climate catastrophe. We’re confident that Vice President Harris is the right leader to take us forward into a just, thriving, clean energy future, with environmental and climate justice for all. We simply cannot afford to go back.”

The plan lays out seven core strategies to keep us moving forward under a Harris administration on climate, jobs, and justice: 

1. Build a clean and effective national grid powered by renewable energy. 
2. Support globally competitive clean industry in America with strong support for union labor. 
3. Promote healthy communities with a modern transportation system underwritten by affordable zero-emission vehicles and safe and clean transit. 
4. Achieve healthy neighborhoods with zero-emission homes and commercial buildings. 
5. Support all communities and empower workers to build a thriving clean energy economy as we move away from fossil fuels. 
6. Empower and support all levels of government to build a clean future. 
7. Drive forward global climate action based on this work. 

Throughout, the plan emphasizes how climate policy can work to make real people’s lives better in communities across this country—creating new jobs and securing new opportunities. It’s consistent with Vice President Harris’ agenda to build an economy that supports families, parents, and communities.

Read the full plan here.

“Democracies can take on even the hardest challenges. Thanks to the historic achievements the Biden-Harris administration delivered in the last four years, we can still lead the world to stabilize the climate. And we can do that while centering communities and workers to ensure that the clean energy economy is also a fair and caring one,” said Evergreen Action Vice President Craig Segall. “Our plan maps out the opportunity for a future President Kamala Harris to continue building on that foundation with the clear and egalitarian strategies we need to prevent the worst of the climate crisis and instead fully secure U.S. global leadership in the global clean energy economy.”

The four years of the Biden-Harris administration ushered in a sea change in the U.S. effort to tackle the climate crisis. A recent analysis conducted by Evergreen revealed that the Biden-Harris administration pursued 280 of the 329 recommendations in the original Evergreen Action Plan—85 percent of the critical climate actions called for in the 2020 action plan. The new action plan, built from a year of conversations with partners, allies, and experts from across the movement and the country, maps out the path ahead to build on that historic progress and avoid the worst of the climate crisis while seizing opportunities to lower costs, create jobs, and advance justice in the clean energy economy.

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