Janet Yellen has just been nominated to become Treasury Secretary in the US by President-Elect Joe Biden. Under President Obama, Yellen served as Chair of the Federal Reserve, the US Central Bank. Her new position is, of course, a little different, but it’s close enough that we thought it worthwhile – as well as environmentally beneficial – to recycle some articles from 2014 and 2015 describing previous policy suggestions made for her by Mike Sandler:
Janet Yellen’s 2014 To Do List: Climate Change
A Fantasy Fed Chair Who Can Save the Planet
What if Janet Yellen joined Todd Stern in Paris?
Featured image: U.S. Treasury Building. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Treasury#/media/File:U.S._Treasury_Building_and_Albert_Gallatin_Statue.jpg
Mike Sandler is the current Chair of FEASTA’s Board of Directors and is a climate change and sustainability professional with experience working for nonprofits and government. He advocates for Cap & Share, and CapGlobalCarbon, and he has written on green monetary reform and basic income, some of which is archived on his author page on HuffPost.
