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The BlueGreen Alliance and our members in the labor and environmental movements work together to develop platforms, agendas, and plans exploring what policies are needed to create a clean, prosperous, and equitable economy.
Solidarity for Climate Action
In June 2019, leaders from the BlueGreen Alliance released their platform to create good-paying jobs and fight income inequality by addressing the climate crisis. The historic platform—entitled Solidarity for Climate Action—puts workers at the forefront of the ongoing discussion about how the United States will tackle climate change. It is the first such comprehensive plan to address climate change put forward by the nation’s largest unions.
The “Solidarity for Climate Action” platform addresses the dual crises of climate change and income inequality in a number of ways, including calling for rapid reductions of greenhouse gas emissions to put America on a pathway of reducing its emissions to net zero by 2050 and massive immediate investments in clean and renewable technology and energy efficiency across all sectors; efforts to increase union density across the country through strong support of the right to organize throughout the economy, including in the clean technology sectors; and rebuilding and modernizing America’s infrastructure and making our communities more resilient.
Released: June 24, 2019
Solidarity for Racial Equity
Systemic racism and oppression are knotted into all of the challenges to building a clean, healthy, and thriving economy for all—the issues that the BlueGreen Alliance was created to address. Intertwined problems require solutions that address the impact on all of the strands. In February 2022, the BlueGreen Alliance released the “Solidarity For Racial Equity” platform designed to ensure that our environmental and economic policy work will lessen economic, racial, and environmental injustice across the United States in ways that are as mutually reinforcing as their causes and lead to a more just society.
Released: February 7, 2022
Manufacturing Roadmap
The BlueGreen Alliance’s 2025 Manufacturing Roadmap highlights major progress made in domestic manufacturing growth and recommendations for further action to secure the clean manufacturing renaissance our country needs. The roadmap emphasizes that clean manufacturing is the future of all manufacturing, and therefore competitiveness depends on sustaining investment in industrial transformation.
Released: April 17, 2025
Social Infrastructure Platform
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the BlueGreen Alliance released Social Infrastructure: A Platform to Ensure the Public Sector, Public Services, and Workers are Resilient for Future Crises and Climate Change. The platform calls for a number of policy actions to: fully invest in the public sector to ensure that the nation has the resources needed to help workers and the communities they serve adapt to climate change; modernize federal health and safety protections to address the realities of climate change and ensure policy enforcement; ensure workers’ rights, representation, and training; and rebuild and expand the social safety net.
Released: December 18, 2020
National Policy on Transportation
The BlueGreen Alliance’s National Transportation Policy called for building a 21st century transportation infrastructure that will create jobs, reduce our dependence on foreign oil and pollution, and ensure the United States is globally competitive.
Released: June 7, 2011
National Energy Transition Policy Framework
A fair and equitable transition must keep workers and communities whole, revitalize and diversify local economies, and address racial inequities while ensuring the retention and creation of–and accessible pathways into–good-paying, union jobs. Therefore, many of the policy ideas and structural recommendations in this document are applicable to a wide universe of communities and workers in the energy economy. These ideas include the recognition that the best approach to energy transition among workers and communities not already impacted is one that prevents economic disruption and employment loss.
This platform recommends policies that will bring immediate and long-term benefits to workers and communities.
Released: May 5, 2021
Global Climate Conference Statements
The BlueGreen Alliance has been active at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since 2008 calling upon world leaders to come together to forge an global agreements that adhere to the principles of scientific urgency, fairness, and justice.
Explore the statements of principles, policy statements, and letters the BlueGreen Alliance has published around UNFCCC convenings below:
- BlueGreen Alliance Promotes Green Jobs at UN Climate Change Conference in Poland (2008)
- BlueGreen Alliance Policy Statement on COP15 in Copenhagen (2009)
- BlueGreen Alliance Agenda for Action on a Climate Agreement in Cancun (2010)
- BlueGreen Alliance Letter to Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern Ahead of COP17 in Durban (2011)
- BlueGreen Alliance Letter to U.S. Envoys ahead of COP18 in Doha (2012)
- BlueGreen Alliance Policy Statement ahead of United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro (2012)
- Position Statement: Laying the Foundation for a Global Agreement at COP 19 in Warsaw (2013)
- BlueGreen Alliance Defends Workers’ Rights at COP20 in Lima (2014)
- Labor, Environmental Leaders Call for Just Transition Language in Paris Climate Agreement (2015)
- COP21: Statement of Principles (2015)
- BlueGreen Alliance Statement on Obama Administration’s Mid-Century Climate Strategy (2016)
- COP23: Statement of Principles (2017)
Jobs21!
Jobs21! is a comprehensive plan that responds to the critical nationwide need for a job-creation strategy. Jobs21! can solve America’s jobs crisis by focusing on the jobs and industries of the 21st century – renewable energy, energy efficiency, manufacturing, transportation infrastructure, recycling, green chemistry, broadband Internet, and smart grid technologies.
Released: August 15, 2011
Apollo Alliance Green Manufacturing Plans
The Apollo Green Manufacturing Action Plans are a set of federal policy recommendations to spur domestic green manufacturing. These plans were developed through collaboration with representatives from academia, industry, labor, and environmental groups.
