Global Greens - Statements

Global Greens Statements

• Final Statement of the First Planetary Meeting of Greens - Río de Janeiro. June 1992

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

• 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."

• 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."

• Global Green Charter. Canberra, Australia. April 2001

Approved at the Global Greens meeting in Canberra, Australia, with 800 Greens from 72 countries present.

• Statement of the Global Green Coordination on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. April 10th, 2002

• No War to Iraq. 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."