APGN in the Global Greens Context

Back in the 1980s, Green Parties were organized almost exclusively in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and a handful of countries in the Americas (Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.). Since then, Green Parties have spread across the globe, appearing today in approximately 90 different countries.

In the Asia-Pacific region, Green growth has gained pace over the last five to eight years with the founding of an Asia Pacific Greens Network (APGN) in 2000 and the groups' subsequent formalization in 2005 at the first ever APGN congress in Kyoto, Japan.

Of the four Global Green federations or networks around the globe, the APGN is the only one that explicitly provides full membership for both Green political parties and Green political movements that are not yet full political parties.

This reflects the nature of the Green movement in the Asia-Pacific region where the number of Green Parties is growing, but where there are also many countries in which there is not yet a formal Green political party.

Today, the Greens continue to grow and prosper around the globe, across cultural differences and despite legal and political challenges, suggesting a collective will and common resolve to act on key issues facing us as a species and the planet as a whole.