Global Greens

Logo of the World Federation of Green Parties

The Global Greens are the world association of green parties and other ecological movements. It was founded in 2001 at a conference in Canberra at which a joint charter, the Global Greens Charter , was adopted. In 2008 a second global conference took place in São Paulo . The aim of the Global Greens is to promote the ideas of green politics worldwide as an international network . The third global conference took place in Dakar from March 29th to April 1st, 2012 ; a fourth world conference was scheduled for March 30 to April 4, 2017 in Liverpool . The youth organization of the Global Greens are the Global Young Greens .

Coordination and management

The governing body is a committee, the Global Green Steering Committee (GGC), with three members each and three representatives from the four regional green associations, the European Green Party (EGP), the Federation of Green Parties of Africa , the Federación de Partidos Verdes de las Américas and the Asia-Pacific Green Network (APGN) as well as one convener and four consultants. There is also the Global Green Network (GGN) , in which one representative from each national green party is represented.

Coordinators (as of May 2016):

Convener of the committee

Margaret Blakers ( Australian Greens , Australia ) - since 2001

African Greens Federation

Frank Habineza (Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, Rwanda ) - since May 2008
Adamou Garba (Niger Parti Vert, Niger ) - since May 2008
Fatima Alaoui (Parti Vert Morocco, Morocco ) - since June 2014

Replacement:

Badono Daigou ( Chad ) - since June 2014
Robinah K. Nanyunja ( Uganda ) - since June 2014

Asia-Pacific Greens Federation

Suresh Nautiyal (Uttarakhand Parivartan Party, India ) - since May 2010
Liaquat Ali (Pakistan Green Party, Pakistan ) - since May 2010
Bob Hale (Australian Greens, Australia) - since June 2015

Replacement:

Yujin Lee (Green Party Korea, South Korea ) - since June 2015
Ballav Timalsina (Nepali Greens, Nepal ) - since March 2014
Guia Limpin (Partido Kalikasan / Greens PH, Philippines ) - since January 2016

European Green Party

Péter Ungár (Lehet Más a Politika, Hungary ) - since November 2015
Merja Kähkönen (Vihreät-De Grön, Finland ) - since May 2013
Eva Goës (Miljöpartiet de Gröna, Sweden ) - since May 2013

Replacement:

Evelyne Huytebroeck (Ecolo, Belgium ) - since November 2015
Josef Šmída (Strana zelených - Czech Green Party, Czech Republic ) - since May 2016
Sergey Kurykin (Partija Zelenykh Ukrainy, Ukraine ) - since May 2016

Federación de Partidos Verdes de las Américas

Fabiano Carnevale, (Partido Verde, Brazil ) - since Nov 2013
Carlos Ramón González (Alianza Verde, Colombia ) - since Nov 2015
Patricia Maldonado (Green Party of United Mexican States, Mexico ) - since Aug 2014

Replacement:

Matilde Baján ( Guatemala ) - since November 2015
Leonardo Alvarez-Romo (Green Party of United Mexican States, Mexico) - since November 2015
Manuel Manotas (Partido Alianza Verde de Colombia, Colombia ) - since November 2015

Adviser to Global Greens

Bert Boer, Treasurer (GroenLinks, The Netherlands ) - since February 2014
Juan Behrend, Advisor (Belgium) - since November 2012
Eva Goës, Fundraiser & Coordinator of the Friends of the Global Greens (Miljöpartiet de Gröna, Sweden) - since November 2012
Papa Meissa Dieng (consultant) - since November 2012

Global Greens coordinator

Keli Yen - since Nov 2015

Member parties

The Global Greens include 16 African, 12 American, 14 Asia-Pacific and 32 European parties. The German-speaking member parties are the German Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , the Austrian Greens and the Swiss Green Party .