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General Descritption: The Global Greens is the international network of Green parties and political movements.

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CHARTER OF THE GLOBAL GREENS

A Non-Profit Organisation, Association Internationale Sans But Lucratif (AISBL)

Charter Text:

As adopted in Canberra 2001
Updated in Dakar 2012, Liverpool 2017, and Korea 2023.

The Global Greens is the international network of Green parties and Green political movements.

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Preamble

Principles

• Ecological Wisdom

• Social Justice

• Participatory Democracy

• Nonviolence

• Sustainability

• Respect for Diversity

Political Action

1. Democracy

2. Equity

3. Climate Change and Energy

4. Biodiversity

5. Governing economic globalisation by sustainability principles

6. Human rights

7. Food and water

8. Sustainable planning

9. Peace and security

10. Acting globally

Recognising that without equality between men and women,justice for all no real democracy can be achieved

ConcernedProtecting for thehuman dignity of humanity and the value of cultural heritage

RecognisingUpholding the rights of indigenous people and their contribution to the common heritage, as well as the right of all minorities and oppressed peoples to their

AssertAssert the need for fundamental changessystem change as well as change in people’s attitudes, values, and ways of producing and living

Declare that the new millennium provides a defining point to begin that transformation

• balances individual interests with the common good; • harmonises freedom with responsibility;

• harmonises freedom with responsibility;

• Promotes the First Nations Indigenous Tribal Peoples' rights and custodianship

• regardless of gender, race, age, religion, class, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, disability, wealth or health.;

• a just transition at all levels to ensure that no one is left behind economically and socially in the shift
  towards a sustainable future

• strengthening the United Nations (UN) as the global organisation of conflict management and peacekeeping; • pursuing a rigorous code of conduct on arms exports to countries where human rights are being violated.

• pursuing a rigorous code of conduct on arms exports to countries where human rights are being violated;

• a global approach to communicating on global threats and solutions with a mind for peace.

We defend the right of all persons, without discrimination, to an environment supportive of their dignity, bodily health, and spiritual well-being.

• recognition ofupholding the rights of indigenous peoples to the basic means of their survival, both economic and cultural, including rights to land and

• equality between women and mengenders in all spheres of social, economic, political and cultural life;

• 1.4 Will strive for the democratisation of gender relations by promoting appropriate mediations to enable women and menall genders equally to take part in the economic, political, social sphere.

• 1.5 Support the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business and urge non-parties to sign and ratify without further delay

• 1.5 Support the international anti-corruption commitments applicable to each
  jurisdiction, and urge non-signatories to sign and ratify them without
  further delay

• 1.11 Support the separation of powers between the executive, legislative and judicial systems, and the separation of state and religion.

• 1.12 systems, and the separation of state and religion.

• 1.1312 Support the development and strengthening of local government.

• 1.1413 Support the restructuring of state institutions to democratise and make them more transparent and efficient in serving the goal of citizens’

• 1.1514 Support improved global governance of multilateral institutions based on appropriate democratic and universal principles.

• 2.4 Commit ourselves to the goal of making high quality primary education universal by 2015universally financed through increased aid and debt relief.

committed to limiting global temperature rise to no more than 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. Global emissions will need to peak well before 2020 to have a chance to stay within this temperature limit.

• 3.2 Adopt the target of limiting CO2 levels in the atmosphere to 450ppm in the shortest period possible.

• 3.2 Will adopt goals and targets agreed by scientific consensus.

• Conventions to ensure that actions are comprehensive and worldwide. The equity principle must be at the core of climate change negotiations and measures.

• 3.6 change negotiations and measures.

• 3.76 Oppose any expansion of nuclear power and will work to phase it out rapidly.

• 3.87 Will support a call for a moratorium on new fossil fuel exploration and development.

• 3.98 Will work to stop deforestation and degradation of natural forests by 2020, noting that they are the most carbon rich ecosystems on the planet, vital to indigenous people, rich in plants and animals, and irreplaceable

• 3.109 Promote tree planting of diverse species but not monocultures, as a short-term measure for carbon sequestration, with other benefits for the

• 3.1110 Promote the levying of taxes on non-renewable energy and support the use of funds raised to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy.

• 3.1211 Support research into the use of sustainable energy sources and the technical development of ecological power production.

• 3.1312 Promote transfer of energy efficient technologies and green power infrastructure between and within countries and economies on a no-costs or

• 4.5 Support the concept of 'debt for nature' swaps, subject to the agreement of affected indigenous and local communities.

• 4.5 Support the concept of 'debt for nature' swaps, subject to the agreement of affected indigenous and local communities. 4.

• 4.6 Will promote the repair of degraded natural environments, and the cleanup of toxic

• 4.11 Will support the conservation and
  sustainable use of oceans, including the creation of international marine
  reserves, the prevention of acidification, among other actions.

• fundamental human rights, or face the risk of death, torture, or other inhuman treatmentinhumantreatment. Also call for governments to respect the rights of people displaced because of the negative effects of anthropogenic climate change, give them fair treatment and do not remove them to a third party country as part of the asylum process.

• 8.10 Demand that corporations and communities reduce, reuse and recycle waste, adopt circular economy
  strategies, aiming for a zero waste economy which replicates a natural ecosystem.

• 9.3 Will campaign for greater power for countries of the South in the UN, by working to abolish the veto power in the Security Council, to remove