- Outline of green politics
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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.
Contents
Nature of green politics
Green politics can be described as:
- activism
- an ideology
- a political ideology
- a social movement
- a political movement
- part of the environmental movement
- a political movement
Essence of green politics
Main article: Green politicsContributing philosophies
Overlapping movements
Green politics shares many ideas with the following movements:
Green schools of thought
- Bright green environmentalism
- Deep ecology
- Eco-feminism
- Green anarchism
- Anarchism and nature
- Green conservatism
- Green left
- Green libertarianism
- Green municipalism
- Green Zionism
- Green syndicalism
- Social ecology
Values and principles
Democracy
- Consensus democracy
- Deliberative democracy
- Participatory democracy
- Grassroots democracy
- Bioregional democracy
- Inclusive Democracy
Environment
- List of environmental issues
- Environmentalism
- Green technology
- Political ecology
- Human ecology
- Social ecology
Feminism
- Feminism
- Eco-feminism
- Feminist economics
Green economics
Main article: Green economicsPolicy 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:
- Bioregionalism
- Biosafety
- Biosecurity
- Electoral reform
- Fundamentalism vs. Realism
- Greenwashing
- Indigenous peoples
- Land reform
- Natural capitalism
- Primate extinction
- 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 [1].
- 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)
- Mazingira Green Party of Kenya
- Rainbow and Greens (Japan)
- Green Party Taiwan
- Iraqi Green Party
Americas
- Federation of Green Parties of the Americas
Green parties in the Americas
- Green Ecological Party of Mexico (Mexico)
- Green Party of Canada (Canada)
- Green Party of British Columbia (Canada)
- Green Party of Ontario (Canada)
- List of provincial Green parties in Canada
- List of Green politicians who have held office in 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)
- Lord Beaumont of Whitley (United Kingdom)
- Ingrid Betancourt (Colombia)
- Joseph Beuys (Germany)
- Jello Biafra (USA)
- Angelo Bonelli (Italy)
- Bob Brown (Australia)
- Martin Bursík (Czech Republic)
- Peter Camejo (USA)
- David Cobb (USA)
- Daniel Cohn-Bendit (France / Germany)
- Robert Cramer (Swiss politician)
- Bertrand Delanoë (France)
- Vera Dua (Belgium, Groen!)
- René Dumont (France)
- Indulis Emsis (Latvia)
- Joschka Fischer (Germany)
- Monica Frassoni (Italy)
- Liaquat Ali (Pakistan)
- Gyulai Iván (Hungary)
- Jim Harris (Canada)
- Femke Halsema (Netherlands)
- Petra Kelly (Germany)
- Fritz Kuhn (Germany)
- Renate Künast (Germany)
- Winona LaDuke (USA)
- Brice Lalonde (France; Génération Ecologie)
- Alain Lipietz (France)
- Caroline Lucas (United Kingdom)
- Wangari Maathai (Kenya)
- Noël Mamère (France)
- Elizabeth May (Canada)
- Ralph Nader (USA)
- Ken Pentel (USA)
- Jonathon Porritt (United Kingdom)
- Claudia Roth (Germany)
- Paul Rosenmöller (Netherlands)
- Otto Schily (Germany; later switched to SPD)
- Fritz Schumacher (Germany/United Kingdom)
- Peter Singer (Australia)
- Charlene Spretnak (USA)
- Bart Staes (Belgium, Groen!)
- Jaromír Štětina (Czech Republic, senate)
- Jürgen Trittin (Germany)
- Jason West (USA)
- Blair Wilson (Canada)
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
- Ecological humanities
- Environmental community organizations
- Environmental groups and resources serving K–12 schools
- Environmental organizations
- Environmental protection
- Environmental Tariff
- Gaian Greens
- 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 sustainability topics
References
External links
- Global Greens Charter, Canberra 2001
- Ecology and Society – book on politics and sociology of environmentalism
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