Global Greens

With the backdrop of deepening vaccine inequality, climate disasters, and continued efforts to delay real action, we gathered the perspectives of COP26 delegates ahead of the conference.

From an alternative movement rooted in 1970s mobilisations to an established party today, we unravel the history of the Finnish Greens.

An interview with the Korean Green co-chair on progressive struggles, prospects, and politics in Northeast Asia.

An interview with co-leader and climate minister from the New Zealand Greens on their successes in government so far and the challenges that lie ahead.

US Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein often cites examples from Europe as a model for the US to try to imitate. From domestic health care to foreign affairs, there seems to be no issue that Europe isn’t doing better than the US on. Yet could she be missing a much more useful example from Europe: how to actually do Green politics?

Fifteen years ago, in April 2001, an unexpected event took place in Canberra, Australia, that would change the scene of international political organisations. A significant number of environmentalists came with a single objective: to found a global Green movement that brings together all the Green parties and political movements of the Green world.

The economic crisis that most of the western economies are facing is digging a breach in our consumer’s narratives. Signs of transition to a new kind of society are numerous in the USA as in Europe and Japan. Despite the claims of prominent development economists, a high mass-consumption society is not the endpoint of history. Could it be that a postconsumerist era is already creeping on us?