The Green New Deal is finally taking form.

On Thursday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) unveiled a landmark resolution cementing the pillars of an unprecedented program to zero out planet-warming emissions and restore the middle-class prosperity of postwar America that the original New Deal helped spur.

Just three months after calls for a Green New Deal electrified a long-stagnant debate on climate policy, the Democratic lawmakers released the six-page document outlining plans to cut global emissions 40 to 60 percent below 2010 levels by 2030 and neutralize human-caused greenhouse gases entirely by 2050.

Today is a big day for workers in Appalachia, Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday at a press conference in Washington, D.C. Today is a good day for children who have been breathing dirty air in the Bronx.

Its an ambitious, if measured, clarion call for action that, if accomplished, would transform the United States into the leader in decarbonizing and clear a path forward for the world to avert catastrophic warming.

The joint resolution stakes out a ten-year national mobilization plan to build smart grids and rapidly increase the share of American power generated from solar and wind from 10 percent today to as close to 100 percent as possible over the next decade. The plan reframes tired talk of repairing the nations crumbling bridges, highways and ports as a crisis in a new era of billion-dollar storms. It gets local, demanding upgrades to all existing U.S. buildings to achieve maximum efficiency with energy and water use.

That holistic framing extends to the way the document describes emissions, mentioning carbon just once and instead using the term greenhouse gases, which includes methane, nitrous oxide and ozone.

Energy and infrastructure issues are the centerpiece of the resolution, with explicit goals of overhauling the transportation sector the countrys biggest source of climate pollution to expand public transit and high-speed rail and to spur a clean manufacturing boom with a particular focus on electric vehicles.

But, unlike most existing Green New Deal concepts, food and water are focal points. The resolution proposes building a more sustainable food system that ensures universal access to healthy food and guaranteeing universal access to clean water. To meet those goals, the document describes working collaboratively with farmers and ranchers to reduce agricultural pollution with sustainable farming and land use practices that increase soil health and supporting family farming.

Unabashedly progressive ideals anchor the resolution. A section outlining guidelines for future Green New Deal bills reads like a laundry list of populist policies, including everything from ramped-up antitrust enforcement ensuring a commercial environment where every businessperson is free from unfair competition and domination by monopolies to a vastly expanded social safety net, providing all people of the United States high-quality health care, affordable, safe and adequate housing, economic security, and access to clean water, air and healthy and affordable food, and nature.

Yet the resolution seems designed for broad appeal. The fact that Markey, a liberal stalwart who co-authored the last major climate bill Democrats tried to pass in 2009, is the lead Senate sponsor shows the insurgent Ocasio-Cortez wing is building bridges with the old guard.