Platform - Green Party US
Section III. Ecological Sustainability
A. Climate Change
Declare a Climate Emergency
The key policies and programs in this program should include the following:
Stop New Fossil Fuel and Other Dirty Energy Infrastructure
Greens call for a halt to all new fossil fuel infrastructure (fracking, oil and gas pipelines, gas-fired power plants).
Existing infrastructure is more than sufficient to deliver fossil fuels during the transition as they are phased out.
Greens also call for a halt to so-called "low carbon" dirty energy industries and for their rapid phase-out, including nuclear power; fossil fuel carbon capture and sequestration; waste incinerators; large-scale biofuels such as factory farm biogas, landfill gas, and wood pellets; hydrogen from fossil fuels; large-scale ecosystem-altering hydropower; and market-based accounting systems like carbon offsets.
Clean energy includes solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, wave, and small-scale hydro.