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The following outline is provided as an overview and topical guide to green politics:
Green politics – political ideology that aims for the creation of an ecologically sustainable society rooted in environmentalism, social liberalism, and grassroots democracy.[1] It began taking shape in the western world in the 1970s; since then Green parties have developed and established themselves in many countries across the globe, and have achieved some electoral success.
Nature of green politics
Green politics can be described as:
- activism
- an ideology
- a social movement
- a political movement
- part of the environmental movement
- a political movement
Essence of green politics
Contributing philosophies
Overlapping movements
Green politics shares many ideas with the following movements:
- Animal rights movement
- Anti-globalization movement
- Climate movement
- Conservation movement
- Environmental movement
- Feminist movement
- Local food movement
- Peace movement
Green schools of thought
- Bright green environmentalism
- Deep ecology
- Eco-feminism
- Green anarchism
- Green conservatism
- Green left
- Green libertarianism
- Green municipalism
- Green Zionism
- Green syndicalism
- Social ecology
Values and principles
Democracy
- Consensus democracy
- Deliberative democracy
- Direct democracy
- Participatory democracy
- Grassroots democracy
- Bioregional democracy
- Inclusive Democracy
Environment
- List of environmental issues
- Ecotheology
- Environmentalism
- Green building
- Green technology
- Human ecology
- Political ecology
- Social ecology
- Sustainable development
Feminism
Green economics
- Eco-capitalism
- Ecological economics
- Eco-socialism
- Ecotax
- Feminist economics
- Free-market environmentalism
- Georgism
- Geolibertarianism
Policy issues
A few issues affect most of the green parties around the world, and can often inhibit global cooperation. Some affect structure, and others affect policy:
- Anti-nuclear
- Bioregionalism
- Biosafety
- Biosecurity
- Electoral reform
- Fundamentalism vs. Realism
- Greenwashing
- Indigenous peoples
- Land reform
- Natural capitalism
- Primate extinction
- Prometheanism
- Rainforest destruction
- Safe trade
On matters of ecology, extinction, biosafety, biosecurity, safe trade and health security, "Greens" generally agree. There are very substantial policy differences between and among Green Parties in various countries and cultures, and a continuing debate about the degree to which natural ecology and human needs align. Agreement on particular issues is often reached using a consensus decision making process.
Organizations
Worldwide
Green federations
The member parties of the Global Greens (see for details) are organised into four continental federations .
- Federation of Green Parties of Africa
- Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas / Federación de los Partidos Verdes de las Américas
- Asia-Pacific Green Network
- European Federation of Green Parties
The European Federation of Green Parties formed itself as the European Green Party on 22 February 2004, in the run-up to European Parliament elections in June, 2004, a further step in trans-national integration.
Europe
- European Green Party
- European Federation of Green Parties/European Free Alliance (Faction in the European Parliament)
Green parties in Europe
- Austrian Green Party (Austria)
- Groen! (Belgium)
- Ecolo (Belgium)
- Green Party (Czech Republic)
- Estonian Greens
- Vihreä Liitto (Finland)
- Les Verts (France)
- Alliance '90/The Greens (Germany)
- Green Party faction (Bundestag) (Germany)
- Left-Green Movement (Iceland)
- Green Party (Ireland)
- Federation of the Greens (Italy)
- Latvian Green Party (Latvia)
- Free List (Liechtenstein)
- Environment Party The Greens (Norway)
- The Greens (Poland)
- The Greens (Portugal)
- Partido da Terra (Galiza)
- Partido da Terra (Portugal)
- Miljöpartiet de Gröna (Sweden)
- Green Party of Switzerland
- Green Liberal Party of Switzerland
- GroenLinks (The Netherlands)
- The Greens (Netherlands) (The Netherlands)
- article also known as De Groenen
- Party of Greens of Ukraine (Ukraine)
- United Kingdom:
- Green Party in Northern Ireland (Northern Ireland)
- Green Party of England and Wales (England and Wales)
- Scottish Green Party (Scotland)
- Initiative for Catalonia Greens (Spain, only in Catalonia)
Africa and Asia
- Ha-Yerukim (Israel)
- Green Party of Pakistan
- ECOPEACE Party (South Africa)
- Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
- Mazingira Green Party of Kenya
- Rainbow and Greens (Japan)
- Green Party of Malaysia
- Green Party Taiwan
- Iraqi Green Party
Americas
Green parties in the Americas
- Green Ecological Party of Mexico (Mexico)
- Green Party of Canada (Canada)
- Green Party (United States) (USA)
- See also Green Committees of Correspondence, Greens/Green Party USA, Boston Proposal
- The Green Party of Alaska, etc.
- Green Party Central Option (Colombia)
Oceania
- Australian Greens Party (Australia)
- United Tasmania Party (Australia)
- Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand (New Zealand)
- Values Party (New Zealand, historical)
- Wild Greens (New Zealand Green Party youth movement)
Alliances
Notable persons
- Adolfo Aguilar Zínser (Mexico; Green Senate 1997-2000)
- Lord Beaumont of Whitley (United Kingdom; former member of the Houses of Parliament)
- Natalie Bennett (United Kingdom; current leader of the Green Party of England and Wales)
- Ingrid Betancourt (Colombia; presidency candidate 2002, kidnapped 2002-2008)
- Joseph Beuys (Germany; artist and founder member of the German Green Party)
- Jello Biafra (USA; singer-songwriter and runner-up in the US Green Party's Presidential nomination 2000)
- Bob Brown (Australia; former leader of the Australian Greens and Senator 1996-2012)
- Martin Bursík (Czech Republic; former leader of the Czech Green Party and Minister of the Environment)
- Peter Camejo (USA; three-time Green Californian gubernatorial candidate and independent vice-presidential candidate 2004)
- David Cobb (USA; US Green Party's presidential candidate 2004)
- Daniel Cohn-Bendit (France / Germany; former student leader in 1968 and member of the European Parliament 1994-2014)
- Robert Cramer (Switzerland; Green representative in the Swiss Council of States)
- Felix Dodds (United Kingdom; environmental author, futurist and activist)
- Vera Dua (Belgium; former Flemish Green Party leader and Minister of Agriculture and Environment 1999-2003)
- René Dumont (France; first Green presidential candidate 1974, forefather of the French Green Party Les Verts and founding member of ATTAC)
- Indulis Emsis (Latvia; Prime Minister of Latvia for ten months in 2004, first Green politician to lead a country)
- Joschka Fischer (Germany; leading figure in the German Greens and Vice Chancellor of Germany and Foreign Minister 1998-2005)
- Monica Frassoni (Italy; co-chair of the European Greens group in the European Parliament 2002-2009)
- Liaquat Ali Khan (Pakistan; first Prime Minister of the modern Pakistan)
- Jim Harris (Canada; former leader of the Canadian Green Party 2003-2006)
- Femke Halsema (Netherlands; leader of the Dutch GreenLeft parliamentary party 2002-2010)
- Petra Kelly (Germany; founding member of the German Greens)
- Fritz Kuhn (Germany; former chair of German Green's parliamentary group 2005-2009 and first Green mayor of Stuttgart since 2012)
- Renate Künast (Germany; German Minister of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture 2001-2005 and chair of the German Green's parliamentary group 2005-2013)
- Winona LaDuke (USA; Native American activist and environmentalist; US Green Party's vice-presidential candidate 1996 and 2000)
- Brice Lalonde (France; French Minister of the Environment 1991-1992 and founder of the green party Génération Ecologie)
- Alain Lipietz (France; Green engineer and economist; member of the European Parliament 1999-2009)
- Caroline Lucas (United Kingdom; former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales 2008-2012 and first Green member of the Houses of Commons since 2010)
- Ulrike Lunacek (Austria; Vice President of the European Parliament since 2014)
- Wangari Maathai (Kenya; environmental and political activist; Nobel Peace Prize winner 2004)
- Noël Mamère (France; Green Party's presidential candidate 2002 and former member of the European Parliament)
- Elizabeth May (Canada; current leader of the Green Party of Canada and first Green member of the Canadian Parliament)
- Ralph Nader (USA; US Green Party's Presidential Candidate 1996 and 2000 as well as independent Presidential Candidate in 2004 and 2008)
- Ken Pentel (USA; US Green Party's gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota in 1998, 2002 and 2006)
- Jonathon Porritt (United Kingdom; environmentalist and advocate of the Green Party of England and Wales)
- Åsa Romson (Sweden; Swedish Minister for the Environment and Deputy Prime Minister since 2014)
- Claudia Roth (Germany; German Green Party leader from 2004 to 2013 and Vice President of the Bundestag since 2013)
- Paul Rosenmöller (Netherlands; leader of the Dutch GreenLeft Party 1994-2002)
- Otto Schily (Germany; German Interior Minister 1998-2005; later switched to SPD)
- E. F. Schumacher (Germany / United Kingdom; Green economic thinker)
- Peter Singer (Australia; moral philosopher and Green candidate for the Australian Senate in 1996)
- Charlene Spretnak (USA; ecofeminist and cofounder of the US Green Party)
- Bart Staes (Belgium; Green member of the European Parliament since 1999)
- Jill Stein (USA; US Green Party's Presidential Candidate 2012 and likely 2016)
- Jaromír Štětina (Czech Republic; Green Senator 2004-2014 and member of the European parliament since 2014)
- Jürgen Trittin (Germany; German Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety 1998-2005 and chair of the Green parliamentary group 2009-2013)
- Alexander Van der Bellen (Austria; leader of the Austrian Green Party 1997-2008 and Green presidential candidate 2016)
- Jason West (USA; former mayor of New Paltz, New York and same sex marriage activist)
- Blair Wilson (Canada; former liberal member of the Canadian Parliament, later became member of the Green Party)
Green publications
- List of environmental books
- List of environmental journals
- List of environmental periodicals
- List of environmental agreements
- List of environmental reports
- List of environmental websites
"False Friends"
"Green" articles that don't relate in any way to Green politics or parties
- Greenpeace – an environmentalist NGO
- Green Revolution – chemistry in agriculture
- Pan-Green Coalition – politics of Taiwan
- European United Left–Nordic Green Left – socialist faction in the European Parliament
See also
- Activism
- Climate movement
- Ecological humanities
- Environmental community organizations
- Environmental groups and resources serving K–12 schools
- Environmental organizations
- Environmental protection
- Environmental Tariff
- Gaian Greens
- Green International
- Green Zionism
- List of environmental organizations
- Viridian Greens
- Nordic agrarian parties
- Eco-capitalism
- Ecocentrism
- Environmentalism
- Free-market environmentalism
- Environmentalism
- List of conservation topics
- List of conservation issues
- List of environmental disasters
- List of environmental organizations
- Lists of environmental topics
- List of green parties
- List of sustainability topics
References
External links
- Global Greens Charter, Canberra 2001
- Ecology and Society – book on politics and sociology of environmentalism
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