page_title: Green politics
section_title: Green federations
hierarchical_section_title: Green politics / Organization / Green federations
caption_attribution_description: English: Senator Bob Brown at a climate emergency rally in Melbourne
context_page_description: Green politics, or ecopolitics, is a political ideology that aims to foster an ecologically sustainable society rooted in environmentalism, nonviolence, social justice and grassroots democracy. It began taking shape in the western world in the 1970s; since then Green parties have developed and established themselves in many countries around the globe and have achieved some electoral success.
  The political term green was used initially in relation to die Grünen, a green party formed in the late 1970s. The term political ecology is sometimes used in academic circles, but it has come to represent an interdisciplinary field of study as the academic discipline offers wide-ranging studies integrating ecological social sciences with political economy in topics such as degradation and marginalization, environmental conflict, conservation and control and environmental identities and social movements.
  Supporters of green politics share many ideas with the conservation, environmental, feminist and peace movements.
context_section_description: Affiliated members in Asia, Pacific and Oceania form the Asia-Pacific Green Network.
  The member parties of the Global Greens are organised into four continental federations:
  Federation of Green Parties of Africa
  Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas / Federación de los Partidos Verdes de las Américas
  Asia-Pacific Green Network
  European Green Party
  The European Federation of Green Parties formed itself as the European Green Party on 22 February 2004, in the run-up to European Parliament elections in June 2004, a further step in trans-national integration.
caption: Bob Brown at a climate change rally in Melbourne, 5 July 2008
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