Reviewer in IR Separately from the Global Green Gatherings, Global Green Meetings take place.

For
The definition of the term eco-politics, also known as ecological politics or political instance, one took place on the fringe of the World Summit on Sustainable
ecology and green politics, is controversial. Primarily, it could be claimed that this Development in Johannesburg. Green Parties attended from Australia, Taiwan,
term implies a political reflection on environmental issues; however, this simplistic Korea, South Africa, Mauritius, Uganda, Cameroon, Republic of Cyprus, Italy, France,
way to present the topic requires clarification since the term “ecology” has been Belgium, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Norway, the US, Mexico and Chile.
conceived as a branch of biology. Although it was in the 1970s and 1980s when it
started to appear in scientific works from the areas of anthropology, geography, or The Global Green Meeting discussed the situation of Green Parties on the African
literature, it was Frank Thone the first to coin the term in 1935. One of the most continent; heard a report from Mike Feinstein, former Mayor of Santa Monica, about
accepted definitions of political ecology is the one proposed by Blaikie and Brookfield setting up a web site of the GGN; discussed procedures for the better working of the
(1987) as a field which links the distresses of ecology and a broadly defined political GGC; and decided two topics on which the Global Greens could issue statements in
economy which, combined, encompass a constantly shifting dialectic between the near future: Iraq and the 2003 WTO meeting in Cancun.
groups and natural resources.
Green federations
EARLY DEVELOPMENT
Bob Brown at a climate change rally in Melbourne, 5 July 2008
n June 1970, a Dutch group called Kabouters won 5 of the 45 seats on the Affiliated members in Asia, Pacific and Oceania form the Asia-Pacific Green Network.
Amsterdam Gemeenteraad (City Council), as well as two seats each on councils in The member parties of the Global Greens are organised into four continental
The Hague and Leeuwarden and one seat apiece in Arnhem, Alkmaar and Leiden. The federations:
Kabouters were an outgrowth of Provo's environmental White Plans and they
proposed "Groene Plannen" ("Green Plans").[17] Federation of Green Parties of Africa
Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas / Federación de los Partidos Verdes
The first political party to be created with its basis in environmental issues was the de las Américas
United Tasmania Group, founded in Australia in March 1972 to fight against Asia-Pacific Green Network
deforestation and the creation of a dam that would damage Lake Pedder; whilst it European Green Party
only gained three percent in state elections, it had, according to Derek Wall, The European Federation of Green Parties formed itself as the European Green Party
"inspired the creation of Green parties all over the world."[18] In May 1972, a on 22 February 2004, in the run-up to European Parliament elections in June 2004, a
meeting at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, launched the Values further step in trans-national integration
Party, the world's first countrywide green party to contest Parliamentary seats ISSUES
nationally.[19] In November 1972, Europe's first green party, PEOPLE in the UK came Green politics mostly opposes nuclear fission power and the buildup of persistent
into existence. organic pollutants, supporting adherence to the precautionary principle, by which
technologies are rejected unless they can be proven to not cause significant harm to
According to Derek Wall, a prominent British green proponent, there are four pillars the health of living things or the biosphere.
that define green politics:[1]
Green platforms generally favor tariffs on fossil fuels, restricting genetically modified
Ecological wisdom organisms, and protections for ecoregions or communities.
Social justice
Grassroots democracy The Green Party supports phasing out of nuclear power, coal, and incineration of
Nonviolence waste.[34] However, the Green Party in Finland has come out against its previous
In 1984, the Green Committees of Correspondence in the United States expanded anti-nuclear stance and has stated that addressing global warming in the next 20
the Four Pillars into Ten Key Values,[23] which further included: years is impossible without expanding nuclear power.[35] These officials have
proposed using nuclear-generated heat to heat buildings by replacing the use of coal
Decentralization and biomass to reach zero-emission outputs by 2040
Community-based economics
Post-patriarchal values (later translated to ecofeminism and Ethics of care)
Respect for diversity
Global responsibility
Future focus

The six guiding principles

Ecological wisdom
Social justice
Participatory democracy
Nonviolence
Sustainability
Respect for diversity

Global organization

Ashok Khosla was president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature
and also worked for the United Nations Environment Programme.
There is a growing level of global cooperation between Green parties. Global
gatherings of Green Parties now happen. The first Planetary Meeting of Greens was
held 30–31 May 1992, in Rio de Janeiro, immediately preceding the United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development held there. More than 200 Greens
from 28 nations attended. The first formal Global Greens Gathering took place in
Canberra, in 2001, with more than 800 Greens from 72 countries in attendance. The
second Global Green Congress was held in São Paulo, Brazil, in May 2008, when 75
parties were represented.

Global Green networking dates back to 1990. Following the Planetary Meeting of
Greens in Rio de Janeiro, a Global Green Steering Committee was created, consisting
of two seats for each continent. In 1993 this Global Steering Committee met in
Mexico City and authorized the creation of a Global Green Network including a
Global Green Calendar, Global Green Bulletin, and Global Green Directory. The
Directory was issued in several editions in the next years. In 1996, 69 Green Parties
from around the world signed a common declaration opposing French nuclear testing
in the South Pacific, the first statement of global greens on a current issue. A second
statement was issued in December 1997, concerning the Kyoto climate change
treaty.[38

Global Green meetings