Howie Hawkins’ Green Party campaign for Governor in New York in 2010 was the first time a comprehensive Green New Deal agenda was promoted in the United States. It was based on a call for a Green New Deal in Europe developed a few years previously by the European Greens and others. The GND was a central focus of Jill Stein’s two Green Party presidential campaigns in 2012 and 2016.

Link: https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/12/13/green-party-urges-congress-and-states-enact-green-new-deal-climate-economic

Green Party of the United States via Common Dreams