The Australian Greens International Development Committee (AG-IDC) is offering travel grants for delegates from the Asia-Pacific Greens Network (APGN) to attend an Election Study Tour (September 8-15th 2013). Two Election Study Tours will be held simultaneously in two major Australian state capitals: Sydney (New South Wales) and Perth (Western Australia); and will coincide with Australia’s Federal Elections on September 14th, 2013.The Election Study Tours are part of the AG-IDC’s work to...
Read more
By STANLEY REED, NY TimesLONDON — Europe used to be nirvana for companies in the clean-energy business, but in the past couple of years it has become a much tougher place. With economies anemic, electricity demand is down; and, not surprisingly, once-generous subsidies that encouraged installing swaths of solar collectors in sun-poor Germany or wind farms in relatively calm areas of France are either being reduced or look as if they could be.But for some people and companies, the harsher...
Read more
A black milestone in climate change history was reached over the weekend. Concentrations of carbon dioxide, the key ingredient in global warming, hit 400 parts per million of the air in our atmosphere, up from 280 ppm in the mid-18th century when the Industrial Revolution kicked in. Internationally, we are rushing headlong towards disaster – 450 ppm being generally regarded as the threshold of ‘dangerous’ climate change.Al Gore had this to say about the milestone: “.… every single day we pour...
Read more
SINGAPORE - The 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have been gearing up to pursue regional market integration through the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) initiatives, which are set to be completed by the end of 2015. Although 77.5% of the AEC Blueprint has already been mapped out, attaining the remaining politically sensitive goals is immensely laborious.The Philippines and Indonesia, now considered ASEAN's fastest-growing economies and brightest spots amidst a gloomy...
Read more
“Partnership between the public and private sector provides a new opportunity for doing development better – by recognising the strength and competencies of each sector and finding new ways of harnessing the common good,” said Mrs Elvi Wijayanti, on behalf of Mr Anang Noegroho, Chairman of the ASEAN Sectoral Working Group on Fisheries.Recognising that partnership and collaboration between the public and private sector can create effective and efficient solutions, government and private sector...
Read more
By JUSTIN GILLIS, The New York TimesThe level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years.Scientific instruments showed that the gas had reached an average daily level above 400 parts per million — just an odometer moment in one sense, but also a sobering reminder that decades of efforts to bring human-produced emissions under...
Read more
Liaquat Ali Shaikh (Pakistan) a ecrit:Hier l'un des sympathisants du Parti Vert, M.Shahnawaz Panhwer a ete tue par des assassins non-identifies a Dadu, dans le province de Sindh.Quelques jours avant son assassinat il avait organise a l'intention du candidat electoral du Parti Vert du PS-73 M.Imriaz Panhwer (qui soutenait le bloc de l'opposition politique contre le parti sortant) une grande assemblee publique dans son village. Sa femme nous a dit que deux personnes etaient venus lui demander qui...
Read more
The 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have been gearing up to pursue regional market integration through the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) initiatives, which are set to be completed by the end of 2015. Although 77.5% of the AEC Blueprint has already been mapped out, attaining the remaining politically sensitive goals is immensely laborious.The Philippines and Indonesia, now considered ASEAN's fastest-growing economies and brightest spots amidst a gloomy global economic...
Read more
The Asia Pacific Greens are appalled by the assassination of Shahanawaz Pahwer in Pakistan. We extend our condolences to Shahanawaz Pahwer's family, friends and people of Pakistan who like him also strive for social justice.Shahanawaz Pahwer was killed by political opponents because he supported the Pakistan Green Party's effort to lead a national government that stands for nonviolence, respect for diversity, social justice, sustainability, democracy and ecological wisdom. Mr. Pahwer's death...
Read more
Vanuatu's Parliament has elected the Greens' leader Moana Carcasses as the country's new prime minister.Moana Carcasses Kalosil is also the first naturalised citizen to become prime minister since Vanuatu gained independence more than thirty years ago. Previously, PM Carcasses held positions of Minister for Foreign Affairs, 2003—2004, Minister for Finance, 2004—2005 and Leader of the Opposition, 2007-08. He served in former PM Sato Kilman's (who resigned last week) cabinet holding positions of...
Read more
"As a Pacific country, we have a blood obligation to our Pacific whānau, and yet we have failed in that duty."
Read more
Climate change is now seen as a threat to national security, and, as the United Nations Security Council has acknowledged, a potential threat to international peace and security—a risk multiplier. Nowhere is this more starkly portrayed than in the Pacific. For our visitors here in this gallery the risk is existential. The international community has, to put it simply, failed to solve climate change.
Read more
Sixteen Asia-Pacific countries are set to start talks next month on a free-trade zone that would cover over half the world's population, according to a document obtained by AFP Tuesday.The start of negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is poised to go ahead despite bitter territorial rifts among planned members, including China, Japan and some Southeast Asian nations.Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), who will meet in Brunei on...
Read more
What is the Prime Minister’s response to President Anote Tong of Kiribati, who said this week that “For our people to survive, then they will have to migrate. Either we can wait for the time when we have to move people en masse or we can prepare them—beginning from now …”?
Read more
History was made in New Zealand last night as the Marriage Equality Bill passed its final reading through the house of parliament.This resulted in same sex marriage now becoming legal in New Zealand. New Zealand is the 13th country internationally to legalise same-sex marriage, and the first in the Asia Pacific region.This is something New Zealand Green MP Kevin Hague has been working hard advocating for a very long time, and the entire Green caucus (14 Members of Parliament) voted in favour,...
Read more
Call for dialogue among countries participating in the escalation of tension on the Korean Peninsula.The Green Parties of South Korea, Taiwan and Japan call for unconditional dialogue among countries responsable for the escalation of tension on the Korean Peninsula, in recognition that war has devastating impacts for all earthly inhabitants, and that nonviolence and sustainability are core values for both Greens and peace-loving nations alike.Green Parties around the world stand for nonviolence...
Read more
New Zealand’s net greenhouse gas emissions have hit the highest level ever and are continuing to grow under the National Government, the Green Party said today. The New Zealand Greenhouse Gas Inventory released today shows that New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions have increased from 2010-2011, the most recent period for which data is available.The inventory of 2011 emissions shows New Zealand's total emissions peaked in 2005, decreased between 2006 and 2009, and highlight an increasing trend...
Read more
SYDNEY: Australia’s Green Party of New South Wales said on Sunday that Mehreen Faruqi will become Australia’s first Muslim member of Parliament.Faruqi, of Pakistani origin, will replace NSW upper house MP Cate Faehrmann in the new parliament later this year.“As the first Greens MP in NSW from a migrant background, I’m also excited about building stronger relationships between the Greens and migrant communities,” Faruqi said in a statement.She said she looks forward to tackling issues concerning...
Read more
台灣綠黨、加拿大綠黨、美國綠黨、澳洲綠黨、紐西蘭綠黨、日本綠黨以及菲律賓綠黨發表共同聲明，嚴正關切不民主又不透明的跨太平洋戰略經濟夥伴協議（TPP）。TPP不僅是單純的貿易協定，該協議可能會阻礙合理價格且安全的藥物流通、箝制地方媒體新聞自由、扼殺科技創新能力，並且限制未來政府的公共衛生以及環境立法。 儘管如此， 馬總統仍宣布要爭取加入跨太平洋戰略經濟夥伴協議 （TPP）。我們認為加入協議的過程必須透明化。該協議是閉門協商的產物，像台灣這樣的民 主社會完全不應該接受這種協議。立法權受到箝制根據目前公開的部份協議內文顯示，如果我國通過會傷害外資企業獲利的法令，這些外國投資者和公司將可以起訴我國政府或地方機關。目前澳洲政府即表示不認同這項協議，並且說明不願意保護跨國企業的利益。然而紐西蘭及加拿大政府卻沒有表示異議，即使加拿大政府不久前才結束了因北美自由貿易協定而衍生的昂貴訴訟。網路自由的終結綠黨認為跨太平洋戰略經濟夥伴協議（TPP）是用來偷渡新制度的措施，該協議嚴厲限制其協議國家的網路使用。在民主國家這些是不該被接受的，包括以刑罰嚴懲未成年人、限制非商業使用之版權、...
Read more
Pages
www.facebook.com/AsiaPacificGreens