Announcing
Second Global Greens Congress
São Paulo, Brazil • May 1st-4th 2008

Watch Streaming Video of the Global Greens Congress

Results - Next Steps for Global Greens

Draft ProgramPlan21

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Who are the Global Greens?

The Global Greens is the international network of Green parties and political movements. We were founded in 2001 at the first Global Greens Congress, in Canberra, Australia. In 2008, we met for our Second Global Greens Congress, in São Paulo, Brazil.

The Global Greens seeks to

promote the Global Green Charter among the Green Parties of the world, as well as kindred groups and society at-large
stimulate and facilitate action on matters of global consequence
deepen communication among Green Parties and Federations everywhere


The Green Federations: Africa, the
Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe

Federation of Green Parties of Africa

Federación de los Partidos Verdes de las Américas/ Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas

Asia-Pacific Green Network

European Federation of Green Parties

The Global Green Charter

" We declare our commitment to nonviolence and strive for a culture of peace and cooperation between states, inside societies and between individuals, as the basis of global security."

Global Green Charter (English)
[Translations]


• Global Greens Conference
Canberra, Australia 2001

In April 2001, 800 Greens from 72 countries met in Canberra, Australia. Click the links below to watch video footage from the conference or to order the book and video tape.

TV set Watch Global Greens Conference Video, 2001 [click here]

Order Global Greens Book & Video

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Other Global Green Statements

• No to War in Iraq, Yes to Longlasting Peace in the Middle East - February 2003

"The Global Greens call on all governments in the Security Council of the United Nations to oppose or veto any decision in favour of armed conflict."

Text of the Iraq Statement

• Statement from Green Parties of the World to the Third Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention -
Kyoto, Japan 1997

"Humanity stands on the threshold of fundamentally destabilizing the climate it has known throughout recorded history....No longer does any serious question exist as to whether humans are altering the climate. Only how."

Text of the Kyoto Statement

• Worldwide Green Parties Oppose French Nuclear Tests at Mururoa -
New Zealand, 1995

"In common with Green Parties around the world, we urge you to exercise enlightened leadership towards non-proliferation and link our name in history with a turning-point towards global peace."

Text of the Mururoa Statement

• Final Statement of the First Planetary Meeting of Greens - Río de Janeiro, Brazil 1992

"Experience teaches us that governments are only moved to take environmental problems seriously when people vote for environmental political parties."

Final Statement from Río