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This is a list of parties in the world that consider themselves to be upholding the principles and values of green politics. Some are also members of the Global Greens , [ 1 ] the European Green Party , the Nordic Green Left Alliance or other international organizations.
The world's first green parties were founded in 1972. These were in the Australian state of Tasmania (the United Tasmania Group) and in New Zealand (the Values Party).Others followed quickly: in 1973, PEOPLE (later the Ecology Party) was set up in the UK, and in other European countries Green and radical parties sprang up in the following years.
The Brazilian Green Party was constituted after the military dictatorship period and, like other Green Parties around the world, is committed to establishing a set of policies on ensuring social-equity and sustainable development. One of the party's founding members was the journalist and former anti-dictatorship revolutionary Fernando Gabeira ...
The German Green Party was not the first Green Party in Europe to have members elected nationally but the impression was created that they had been, because they attracted the most media attention: The German Greens, contended in their first national election in the 1980 federal election. They started as a provisional coalition of civic groups ...
Ralph Nader (USA; US Green Party's Presidential Candidate 1996 and 2000 as well as independent Presidential Candidate in 2004 and 2008) 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)
The book documents the rise of ecosocialism, from the UK to Latin America.The book is described as documenting "indigenous protest in the Peruvian Amazon to the green transition in Cuba to the creation of red-green parties in Europe" and noting that "ecosocialism is defining the future of left and green politics globally" and the support given to ecosocialism by Evo Morales and Hugo Chavez.
Eco-nationalism (also known as ecological nationalism or green nationalism) is a synthesis of nationalism and green politics. Eco-nationalists may be from many points across the left–right political spectrum , but all are bound to the idea that the nation-state and its citizens have a special duty to protect the environment of their country.
2018 • Shane Robinson (Maryland) – November 2018, changed party to Green 2017 • Henry John Bear (Maine) – November 2017, changed party to Green 2017 • Ralph Chapman (Maine) – September 2017, changed party to Green 2012 • Fred Smith (Arkansas) – November 2012, elected, general election