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The 2010 Asia Pacific Greens Network Congress 30 April - 2 May 2010, Taiwan

Fair share for all in the current generation;Fair share for future generations;Fair share to address the systemic disadvantages Fair share for all species with whom we share this planet;

- Excerpt from Fair Share Declaration

The Asia Pacific Greens Network (APGN) brings together Green parties and political movementsfrom across a region increasingly influential in world affairs; where economic and socialdevelopment is rapid; democracy is relatively new, weak or even nonexistent; and bringinggreen ideas into power will decide whether our global challenges are won or lost.

The APGN was established five years previously at its inaugural Congress in Kyoto, Japan and isone of the four regional federations of the Global Greens – alongside federations representingEurope, Africa and the Americas. Currently full members of the APGN include elevenorganisations from eight Asia-Pacific countries. “Associate Members” (seven organisations) and“Friends of the APGN” (four organisations) include another six countries. In all there are fifteencountries involved (A full list of members can be found in Attachment 1).

This is a report about the second Asia-Pacific Greens Network Congress which was held inTaipei, Taiwan over the weekend of 30 April-2 May, hosted by the Green Party Taiwan and theTaiwan Friends of the Global Greens. Over 200 people attended, with participants being evenlydivided between local Taiwanese and those from overseas. Seventeen Asia Pacific countries wererepresented, and were joined by representatives of the European Greens and the United StatesGreens in addition to over eighty young Taiwanese assisting the Congress in every possible wayas volunteers. Most of these were not yet members of the local Green party, but clearlyextremely passionate!

The Congress provided an opportunity for people interested in the growth of green policies andreform to discuss how to build a new generation of green decision-makers in the region andhow to develop the influence to promote reform.

The goals of the APGN gathering were:

To lay groundwork for the growth of vibrant Green parties and elected decision-makers inthe region.

To empower Green parties and groups through meeting and exchanging ideas with a vibrantnetwork of peers.

To formalize new rules for the operation of the Network and to develop an ambitious butachievable 5-year strategic plan.

To promote understanding of the differing political contexts in which groups are working.To discuss region-wide collaborative partnerships and campaigns that can strengthen the

network.To generate more reform action by policy-makers in the region.

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Congress Participants

Among the groups represented at the Congress were nineteen of the twenty-two organisationsfrom fifteen countries that have gone through the process of applying for and being accepted asMembers, Associates or Friends of the APGN. There were also many individuals andorganisations attending from sympathetic political parties, community groups (including anAdministration in Exile), governments or businesses – these people were interested to learnmore about Green Parties in the region and the issues being discussed during the three dayCongress.

Specifically, attendees to the congress originated from Taiwan, Australia, Japan, the Philippines,Korea, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mongolia, Nepal, Papua NewGuinea, Sri Lanka, Tuvalu, Tibet, the Federated States of Micronesia and Fiji; and a number ofobservers from Greens Parties in Egypt, Germany, France, UK, Switzerland, and the USA.

Congress Hosts

The Congress was hosted jointly by the Green Party Taiwan and Taiwan Friends of the GlobalGreens. The Green Party Taiwan registered as a political party in Taiwan in 1996, garnerednearly sixty-thousand party votes in the 2008 national parliament elections, and will be runninga number of candidates in elections for city councilor at the end of this year. The Taiwan Friendsof the Global Greens was established in 2008 and with the Green Party Taiwan organized adelegation of twenty-two representatives to attend the May 2008 Second Congress of the GlobalGreens in São Paulo Brazil.

Highlights of the Congress

The most active Green Parties and groups in the region held discussions to transform theinformal Asia Pacific Greens Network into an active and formal organisation capable ofsupporting the growth and success of its members.

A robust discussion about the type of organisational structure that the groups wanted, andfuture goals, directions and activities of the network, led to the adoption of new APGN Rulesto guide the operation and governance of the Network, and a new Five Year Strategic Plan toguide the direction and activities of the network till the next Congress.

More information about the Rules and Strategic Plan are given in the next section, anddetailed descriptions are in Attachment 3. The two documents may be found athttp://apgn2010.org/rules-apgn and http://apgn2010.org/apgn-5-year-strategic-plan

An “Open Space” workshop session ran during the first day which allowed participants todiscuss a range of issues of interest to them. The process allowed the participants to set thetopics for discussion and find other people interested in the same issues from around theregion. Forty topics were raised and discussed including - Moratorium of the use of DeathPenalty in Asia, How to launch a Green Campaign in China, Electoral Systems & Campaigning,Whaling and Sharing rivers across borders. The facilitators of this session ensured that thegroups captured their discussions and future action plans. A detailed report of the open spaceworkshops can be found at http:// apgn2010.org/open-space-meeting-reports.

The local organisers established a number of creative partnerships with non-profit groupsand businesses that worked to host Taiwan’s first ever green, low carbon conference. Some ofthe green highlights of the conference were:

Travel: promoting public transport use & zero carbon alternatives. Communications: reducing paper waste through website development and online

communication tools. Installations & modifications: permaculture and resource efficiency strategies with an

emphasis on five key local resources – water, energy, soil, plants, and humanknowledge/skills.

Waste management: optimising waste and recycling handling procedures at the venue. Catering: promoting vegetarian meal options, organic, and locally produced foods.

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Accommodation: onsite accommodation and distribution of “Green” hotel checklists. Education and promotion: Reaching out to local and international civil society in the

planning and implementation stages. building awareness of “Green” values among Taiwan'sschools, universities, governments and private citizens.

A forum held on the second day of the Congress focused on climate change policy in lightof the disappointing outcome in Copenhagen. Senator Bob Brown, Leader of the AustralianGreens chaired the opening session with guest speakers Apisai Ielemia, Prime Minister of theisland nation of Tuvalu and Dr. Vandana Shiva, environmentalist from India. The audiencewere captured by these high level speakers and their insights into the world of internationalclimate change negotiations.

The Prime Minister outlined his nation’s efforts to secure a legally binding agreement inCopenhagen and the mistakes made by the hosts that led to a presentation of the hastily puttogether and poorly constructed Accord. Dr Shiva talked about the attack on theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change following the release of emails from East AngliaUniversity. She argued that this assault was flawed and focused on the need to protect theHimalayas, or the “third pole” from global warming.

The Congress ran an electoral process to elect representatives for two bodies to drivecooperation over the coming years. The Asia Pacific Greens Network Co-ordinating Committeewill implement the Five Year Strategic Plan for the Network. Also elected were three APGNrepresentatives to serve on the Global Greens Coordination Group which oversees GlobalGreens affairs, including issuing Global Greens statements and organising Global Greenscongresses. Sixteen candidates ran for eleven positions, each delivering speeches about theirskills and commitment. The election process was run using a proportional preferential votingsystem.

The full Program of the Congress is available in Attachment 2

A detailed description of what happened in the Congress sessions and discussions is inAttachment 3

Major Outcomes of the Congress

A significant restructuring of the APGN has been made possible by the adoption of theAPGN Rules – available at http://apgn2010.org/rules-apgn, The APGN is now able tooperate as a functional organisation with operating rules and procedures, and with electedrepresentatives empowered to take up their responsibilities. The new rules established anelected Coordinating Committee authorised to manage APGN affairs between Congresses andto provide for the establishment of Working Committees and Actions Groups, among them arestructured Membership Panel to assess membership applications. Action Groups will bringtogether members of the APGN for campaigning on Green issues and supporting the growthof Green ideas and organizations in the region.

The reinvigorated APGN is now capable of developing an increasingly influential public voicefor the Asia Pacific Greens and of asserting itself as a much-needed alternative to failedgovernments and their policies. Growth and strengthening of the Network over the next fiveyears will be facilitated by the Five Year Strategic Plan that was adopted – available here:http://apgn2010.org/apgn-5-year-strategic-plan. The Strategic Plan set the long termGoal of the APGN as:

To have an Asia-Pacific wide network of well established, viable political parties andmovements exercising decisive political influence, cooperating to promote, implement anddevelop the goals of the Global Greens Charter, at national and international levels.

The Five Year Strategic Plan agreed at the Congress set the long term Goal of the APGN as:

To have an Asia-Pacific wide network of well established, viable political parties andmovements exercising decisive political influence, cooperating to promote, implement anddevelop the goals of the Global Greens Charter, at national and international levels.

The Plan set the following objectives for the APGN to have achieved at the end of the 5-yearperiod:

1. The APGN has helped its member organisations maximise their political influence and isheard as a significant green political voice across the Asia Pacific region.2. Green parties and political movements in the APGN have grown in strength and numberand achieved increased representation in public office. Where elections are not possible,

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significant progress is made towards democratisation of governance and electoral systems.3. Green parties and political movements in the region are comprehensively responding toclimate change and other global and regional environmental issues. This will involve strongadvocacy for climate justice.4. There is an active Asia Pacific Young Greens Network (APGYN) campaigning in its own rightand providing active members to Greens parties and movements in the region.5. Within the APGN and its member organisations women are fully involved and play an equalrole at all levels.6. Within the APGN and its member organisations, the role of Indigenous peoples and otheroppressed groups is strengthened.7. Green parties and political movements in the region are campaigning strongly for “fairshare” policies and practices aimed at reducing poverty and promoting social andenvironmental justice. This includes campaigns against discrimination based on gender, race,age, religion, class, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, disability, wealth or health.

The Congress brought together a diverse group of Asia Pacific Green activists who formedbonds around common interests, and this personal contact will be invaluable for futurecollaborative work together.

The Congress enhanced the profile of the Taiwan Greens who demonstrated the strength oftheir organisation and networks. The coverage in the local media will benefit futurecampaigns.

There was significant educational value for many participants, and for the wider publicthrough media coverage, and through policy debates on all three days. Policy discussions inthe Climate Change Forum, the Open Space meetings, and the workshops led to the adoptionof seventeen resolutions on a range of issues (including Climate Change, Peace, Biodiversityand the Depleted Uranium Weapons). The adopted resolutions may be found in Attachment 5and at http://www.apgn2010.org/adopted-resolutions. The “Fair Share Declaration” thatwas adopted is a statement of shared principles of the Congress, with a call to action by thosewith power, including the Taiwan Government. Attachment 5 gives this declaration, which mayalso be found at http://apgn2010.org/fair-share-declaration.

The successful Climate Change Forum will provide a solid basis for campaigning on thiscrucial issue.

Election of the new APGN 2010 Coordinating Committee:

Suresh NAUTIYAL (Uttarakhand Parivartan Party, India)

Miriam SOLOMON (Australian Greens)

Robin WINKLER (Taiwan Green Party)

Jessica ZANETTI (Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand)

Jong Hwa JANG (Korea Greens)

Roy CABONEGRO (Partido Kalikasan, Philippine Green Party)

Shuji IMAMOTO (Ecolo Japan)

J A M Janda Chandima, (Sri Lanka Greens Alliance, Associate Member Representative)

Election of three new representatives on a global coordination group

Sandra PENG (Taiwan Green Party)Margaret BLAKERS (Australian Greens)Liaquat Ali SHAIKH (Pakistan Green Party)

Two informal networking groups met at the Congress – the Asia Pacific Young GreensNetwork which was first mooted at Kyoto in 2005, and a new Asia Pacific Queer Greens.

Next Steps for the APGN

The new Coordinating Committee is meeting regularly to take up their responsibilities. Theyhave agreed on a new 2010 Operational Plan – a plan of action for the first year post-Congress.Priority actions for the first year are:

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Establish and develop communication mechanisms for information sharing between APGNgroups

Interface with other green movements (including small and local green groups) andemerging green parties to expand and strengthen the APGN membership base

Coordinate a region-wide campaign on climate changeEstablish infrastructure for political and financial support, especially for the Greens from

poor countriesConduct a collaborative research project on electoral systems in all APGN countries, with a

view to promoting systems more conducive to electing Greens to public officeEstablish a functioning Asia-Pacific Youth Green Network (APYGN) with established

mechanisms for liaison with APGNInvestigate options and set up procedures for achieving gender inclusiveness in the APGN

and APGN groups.

This work will be achieved with the help of Working Committees and Action Groups now beingestablished.

ATTACHMENT 1: APGN Member Groups - Asia Pacific’s emerging Green Parties

FULL MEMBERS

Uttarakhand Parivartan Party (UKPP) – India’s first Green party registered with the ElectionCommission of India. Emerged from people's struggles including anti-dam and ecologicalmovements in the Central Himalayan Region or Uttarakhand, and situated in the northern partof India bordering Himachal Pradesh and Uttara Pradesh on the one side and the internationalborders of Tibet and Nepal on the other side. The state-level party plans to contest theUttarakhand assembly elections in 2012.

Ecolo Japan – an organisation in Japan that works with the political system on green policyand advocacy issues and plans to form a political party to stand candidates for local electionsand the national Senate election in 2010.

Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand – celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2010, the Partycurrently contributes nine national Parliamentarians to government.

Australian Greens – At the time of the Congress there were five Australian Greens Senators,in addition to over twenty State MPs and more than 100 local Greens councillors across thecountry. At the 2010 Australian federal election the number of Greens elected to nationalparliament doubled, giving them one new and important seat in the lower house ofGovernment (House of Representatives) and four more in the house of review (giving themnine in the Senate). The Australian Greens will now have the balance of power in AustralianGovernment for the first time.

Pakistan Green Party (Pakistan Greens) – a nationally registered political party establishedin 2002. Electoral success has given them 116 local counsellors and three deputy mayors ofsmall towns.

Partido Kalikasan – the Philippines Green Party had ten local candidates and supported thebid of Nicanor Perlas for President last May 2010 elections. They are active on a number ofissues including involvement in "peoples primary elections" in the period before the actualelections.

Green Party of Taiwan – Founded in 1996, the party received about 57,000 votes in thelast (2008) national elections for legislators (MPs).

Greens Japan – Established in 2008 through a merging of Greens Japan, Midori-no-Tableand Rainbow and Greens Japan. Greens Japan works to create a sustainable welfarecommunity through working together with the NGOs, NPOs, citizens groups, and people’smovements throughout Japan.

Kanagawa Network Movement (Japan) established in 1984, grassroots movement topromote participatory and consumer-oriented politics based on the principles ofparticipation, decentralisation, citizen autonomy and disclosure by citizens on their ownbehalf.

Korea Greens (South Korea) – an activist movement involved in politics, with elected localgovernment members as members, and aspiring to become Political Party.

Taiwan Friends of the Global Greens – social, economic and environmental activist groupsupporting green outcomes in Taiwan elections.

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

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Green Party Nepal – Founded in 1996 under the presidentship of Kuber Sharma. The partyis registered with the election commission and contested in the election for Parliament. TheGreen Party Nepal currently has three thousand members from across Nepal.

Sarekat Hijau Indonesia - loosely translated as the Green Indonesia Union are buildingmembers, working towards Party registration while building the green movement throughgreen political education.

Nature Conservation Party, Nepal – An emergent, first youth led green party of Nepal.Maohi Greens (French Polynesia) – association for sustainable development, protection of

environmental heritage, and welfare of the population.Mongolian National Green Movement – active on a range of environmental, health and

human rights issues, including relentless activism against the destructive effects of goldmining.

Sri Lanka Green Aliance – a small political movement of mostly youth aiming to create theneed for green principles in an localised manner.

Federation for a Democratic China Australia – an NGO in Australia working for democracyin China.

Philippine Greens – a political & environmental movement and election watchdog.

FRIENDS OF THE APGN

Hong Kong Green Party – formed in 2009 and has a focus on the Green Economy. Workingto run in 2011 Local Government elections, with the aim to influence provincial and centralgovenments through an active role in deliberations.

Papua New Guinea Green Party – political movement and registered NGO started in 2002.There are plans to reactivate the Party for the 2012 PNG elections. Arose from anti-loggingand anti-mining activities.

China Green Party / Chinese Greens – Started as an Internet community of Chinese peopleconcerned about China's environment and social justice. Aims to bring democracy to China,be a registered political party in China, participated in elections in China, and spread Greenvalues in China.

Attachment 2 – Program of the APGN Congress

Attachment 3 – Description of the Congress Sessions and Discussions

April 29, ThursdayAsia Pacific Young Greens and Queer Greens

On the day before the main Congress young greens and queer greens came together for theAsia Pacific Young Greens Network (APYGN) & Asia Pacific Queer Greens Network (APQGN)Congress.

Young Greens

The outcomes from the APYGN were:

APYGN agreed to become the official youth wing of Asia Pacific Green Network (APGN); APYGN nominated Mr. Sanka Chandima Abayawardena from Sri Lanka and Ms. Jessica

Zanetti of New Zealand to represent APYGN on the APGN Coordinating Committee; Philippine Green Party successfully lobbied for the creation of a Youth Solidarity Fund for

APYGN. This was approved by the APGN Congress; APYGN agreed to continue and maintain the creation of the mailing lists and create an

online platform for the network.

Queer Greens

The decisions from the APQGN were:

To involve queer groups and individuals in APGN activities through concerted efforts. To bolster the queer voice, especially queer minorities. To advocate queers involvement in political affairs and to become queer politicians. To push for an international convention to defend the right of all persons of all kinds of

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sexual orientation and gender identity in the Asia Pacific region.

April 30, Friday. Introductions, Open Space and Formal Meetings

Introduction

The Congress was opened by a traditional song and dance by the indigenous Taiwanese BununPerformance Group from Kalibu (Wang-Hsiang Village). In the opening speeches, the agenda ofthe congress and the process for resolutions were introduced. The Congress then broke up intotwo streams for Day 1.

Open Space Meetings

Stream A was where the Open Space meetings took place, with open discussions on a broadrange of topics relating to Green issues. These followed the methodology of Open SpaceTechnolody as described above.

40 topics were raised in total in the Open Space meetings. The theme was: Fair Share for aGreen Future: Issues and Opportunities to Make it Happen. A detailed report of the openspace workshops can be found at http://apgn2010.org/openspace-meeting-reports.

Formal Delegates Meetings

Concurrently, Stream B convened delegates representing APGN Full Member organisations towork on five categories of decisions which needed to be made at this congress:

1. To restructure the APGN by adopting new APGN Rules 2. To adopt a new Five Year Strategic Plan 3. To adopt a Fair Share Declaration 4. To adopt resolutions proposed by members or workshops during the conference 5. To elect eight representatives to the new APGN Coordination Committee, and three APGNrepresentatives onto the Global Greens Coordination Group.

The sessions of this stream were attended by official delegates from nearly all the APGNmember organisations. In almost every case seven of the eight countries had their full quotaof 3 delegates present. This meeting thus had the very positive feature of bringing togetherleading members from the most active Green organisations in our region. All were united in ashared objective: to transform the APGN into a dynamic and active organisation capable ofexercising political voice to support the growth of Green ideas in our region.

The session began its work by adopting a document specifying the rules under which theformal sessions of the Congress would work and decisions could be made. A ProceduresCommittee was elected which was responsible for developing final drafts of the resolutionsand proposals to be put to the meeting on Sunday, supervising the elections, and overseeingthe program, agenda and facilitation of the Sunday sessions to ensure that the meeting wouldbe able to make all the necessary decisions.

In the months leading up to the Congress, the Australian Greens conducted an online surveyto ascertain the current political situation of the Green organisations in our region, and theneeds of the APGN and its member groups - http://www.apgn2010.org/sites/default/files/Report%20of%20survey%20for%20APGN %205%20year %20strategic %20plan.pdf. Theresults of the survey showed that members wanted the APGN to be able to take on acoordinating role in between Congress meetings. Hence it was clear that a more formalstructure was needed for this Network, with enhanced powers and mechanisms forcoordinating widespread joint activities.

A new structure was proposed by the Australian Greens, based around the formation of anew Coordination Committee supported by a largely email based consultative group whichhad representatives elected from full member organisations. A slightly different new structurewas also proposed by Ecolo Japan. Both drafts were circulated before the meeting. Followingemail exchanges and discussions held prior to the Congress, a document which combined thework of these two groups was prepared and it was this combined document that waspresented to the meeting.

Much of the discussion at the meeting focused on the composition and election process forthe Coordination Committee. This included a proposal that a role be found for AssociateMember organisations on this body. These matters needed to be finalised on that Friday sothat nominations for the elections could be opened in time for the Sunday business meeting.A working group was given the task of finding mutually agreeable solutions on thesecontentious issues.

The formal meeting turned to the second of the proposals arising from the Survey, the FiveYear Strategic Plan, also submitted prior to the Congress as a proposal by the Australian

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Greens, with amendments from Ecolo Japan. There was all around very positive support forthe draft Strategic Plan that was now under consideration, and through very constructive andcooperative debates improvements to the Objectives were made and some other minoramendments. There was no time, however, to discuss Part B containing the Operational Plan,out of which it was hoped that action groups could be set up at the Conference. This waspartially resolved through an announcement in the final plenary recommending thatinterested people network with each other outside the formal meeting time and begin settingup some action groups. As a result of this three action groups are being established postconference, on nuclear issues, on Himalayan environmental issues, and on wildlife protectionand biodiversity.

Later in the afternoon the APGN Rules working group returned and it was agreed that therewould be an 8 member Coordination Committee, with 7 of the members being elected fromthe full member organisation. At least 3 of these must be women, and one a young person of35 or under. An additional one member would be elected from the Associate Memberorganisations. The question of whether this additional member would have decision makingrights was left to be decided at the Sunday session. Election of 3 representatives on the GlobalGreens Coordination from the full member organisations was also approved. Finally, it wasagreed that the elections would be carried out using the Single Transferable vote system(previously used at the APGN Congress at Kyoto in 2005).

May 1, SaturdayForum: Asia Pacific debates - What next after Copenhagen?

Australian Senator and Leader of the Australian Greens, Bob Brown, took center stage tointroduce the two very special guest speakers, the Prime Minister of Tuvalu, Apisai Iliemia andDr. Vandana Shiva.

The Prime Minister of Tuvalu stated that the meeting at Copenhagen was a failure and adisappointment. Tuvalu was looking for a legally binding agreement. Tuvalu prepared twodocuments for the negotiations: 1) a series of changes to the Kyoto Protocol, and 2) aproposal for a legally binding agreement. They were not permitted to talk about theproposals. Instead the Chair and the major nations pulled together the Copenhagen accordbecause the US which is the largest GHG emitter and only non-registered country, hadnothing to bring to the table – President Obama had nothing new to offer. The Accord washastily drafted. Abandoning the Kyoto Protocol was a big mistake. The US said they will notprovide funds unless all the countries sign the accord – but Tuvalu stood up to them andrefused to sign a wrong document. We need to take these steps – Step 1: Green parties mustuse their political ties to push for the green cause. Step 2: Get all the countries to sign theKyoto Protocol. Step 3: Get the US to take steps towards the goal. We need to get asustainable and green world.

Vandana Shiva took the stage - “All of human history is at stake. The polluters are playinggames. Every attempt has been attacked”. She spoke about the attack on the IPCC - emails inEast Anglio: No experiment is a straight line. The IPCC said that the Himalayas would melt in2030 - a date that they got from a magazine. But just because one date is wrong it can'tlegitimize all the claims against climate change. There has been 2 years of in-depth study onthe Himalayas. Ladakh is a place with snow where it is not natural for it to rain, but now rainshave flooded villages there. The Gangotri's water is now receding. Last year there was a 90%failure of monsoons. In India, the loss of rains in certain regions and excessive rain in regionsthat don't get much rain, caused 30 billion in losses in one year, one season.

Gandhi said - as long as as unjust laws exist, slavery and dominance will exist. Kyoto 1rewarded the polluters - almost 24 million was given to the polluters. The 'clean' tag wasgiven to HCFC plants, super-thermal coal plants, mega dams. "Clean" coal? That is wrong.40% of the GHG comes from a combination of industrial trade farming, growing soya & palmoil for animals. There are living soils - living carbon which is good. We should focus on thehigh LIVING carbon economies, not low carbon economies. The dead carbons should be leftwhere they are - under the ground. We need to promote Earth democracy - a shift in theprincipals. Mother Earth is a living being - it needs water, air and respect. We have obligationsto Mother Earth. Bigness is not a virtue, smallness is strength.

The floor was then opened for a Question and Answer session. Is vegetarianism the way togo? Is the Tibetan plateau important? Japan agreed to cut the carbon dioxide by 25% - is thisreasonable? Are there any thoughts on how we can stop deforestation in Papua New Guinea?And a range of other questions.

Concluding Speech by Bob Brown. Climate change can be turned around. The PM of Tuvalushowed courage by refusing to sign a useless document; Vandana Shiva could be makingmoney and she could be rich if she were working for a corporation - but she chooses to behere. They inspire us to save the planet and stop the misuse of power. The main things weneed to stop is: 1) Coal fired power plants in China; 2) Coal fired power plants in the US; 3) Oilcompanies in the US; and 4) Coal fired power plants in India. Climate change is causingmassive human destruction and the Greens need to take steps to lead and represent the

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movement against climate change.Four members gave speeches during the morning panel discussions based on the

prevention of climate change and Asia Pacific's mitigation challenges, policies and solutions.

Member of Parliament and Green Party of Aotearoa Co-Leader, Russel Norman spoke aboutthe pricing of greenhouse emissioins in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and how the principles can beapplied abroad.

Namiho Matsumoto from Greens Japan talked about Japan's policy on climate changeprevention – the current issues and the forecasts. She spoke of the local “Make the RuleCampaign”.

Liaquat Ali from the Pakistan Greens delivered a speech on the role of developing countireson the behavioral change initiatives for climate change mitigation.

Yu Yin from China spoke of climate change in China and the responses from thegovernment and civil society.

Panel discussions after lunch focused on living with the impacts of climate change:

Saruul Agvaandorj, the head of the Mongolian Green Movement, entreated for thetermination of gold production.

Professor Cheng-Yan Kao from the Green Party Taiwan talked next of the main localpolluters in Taiwan and how local industries should harness new green technologies.

Roy Cabonegro from Partido Kalikasan, the Philippines, spoke next of the vulnerabilities thatthe low laying islands of the Phlippines are facing.

Marstella Jack of the Federated States of Micronesia also spoke of the threat of rising sealevels and how this is affecting her country.

Discussion workshops on specialist climate change topics took place in the mid afternoon.Topics included:

“How We can Mitigate Climate Change: ‘Carbon Tax’ and ‘Emissions Trading’ as an ‘effectivesolution’ based on political schemes”; Convener: Shuji Imamoto

“Melting Himalayas: Climate Change and Pastoralism on the Tibetan Plateau”; Conveners:Tenzin Norbu, Dhondup Dolma and Suresh Nautiyal

“From Grassroot to Government: A study of recent Green Party building in the Philippinesand Asia”; Convenor: Serhat Unaldi

"Modern Direct Democracy: towards genuine people power in environmental politics";Convener: Bruno Kaufmann

“A Possibility to create a Nuclear Free Zone (NFZ) in Northeast Asia”; Convener: Ricky Adachi “How to build a Global Green Economy”; Convener: Albert Oung

After the workshops concluded, attendees once again gathered in the main convention hallwhere Senator Bob Brown recapped the global greens mission. He articulated how big groupsare trying to swallow green groups. He reminded us to work to reach global dominance inpolitics and to have proper representation of minorities. He beseeched all to never give up.

May 2, Sunday

The last day of the Congress was devoted to the business meeting of the APGN followed by theclosing ceremony. This meeting would have to endorse (or reject) the new “Rules of the APGN”document, the Five Year Strategic Plan, the Taipei 2010 Fair Share Declaration, and the manyResolutions that had been put forward. It would also elect the 8 members of the CoordinationCommittee and the 3 representatives of the APGN on the Global Greens Coordination. Sufficientnominations for all positions had been received.

The room was arranged so that the representatives from member organizations were seated atthe front of the hall at tables. Those with decision making rights (three delegates from each ofthe eight countries with one or more Full Member organizations) were seated together at thecentre of this group of tables, and voting cards and ballot papers for the two elections weredistributed to each such delegation.

The meeting began with a clear explanation of the processes agreed at the meeting on theFriday. It then moved on to the formal decisions. With such a wide ranging set of decisions to bemade (including consideration of 17 separate resolutions) this task might seem daunting, but infact proceeded smoothly. Much of the credit goes to the Congress Procedures Committee,formed at the formal delegates meeting on the Friday. On the Saturday, while most participantswere enjoying the panel discussions and workshops, the Procedures Committee were hard atwork late into the evening collating and refining the resolutions, and planning the program,

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agenda and facilitation for the Sunday. Their hard work ensured that the Sunday session hadclearly stated and unambiguous proposals before them as well as competent facilitation to aidthe decision process.

Rules of the APGN

The first matter to be considered was the “Rules of the APGN” document. There were 2amendments put forward to the draft Rules as presented. The first (foreshadowed at the Fridaydiscussion) concerned whether the representative of the Associate Member organizations on theCoordination Committee would have voting/decision making rights. After some limiteddiscussion at which consensus was not possible, the proposal that he/she would have suchrights was put to a vote and defeated (3 in favour, 5 against).

The second amendment came from Partido Kalikasan (Philippine Green Party) and concerned theAsia-Pacific Young Greens Network (APYGN). It was proposed to include a clause stating that20% of the annual budget of the APGN be dedicated to support the operations and programmesof the APYGN. While there was general support for the idea of supporting this youth group,some delegations felt it would not make sense at this stage to define a percentage figure. Atpresent the APGN has no regular funds, and most of what has been raised was for the specificpurpose of supporting the Congress. At the end of the discussion it was agreed to include sucha clause without specifying a percentage figure. The agreed clause also referred to “budget andresources” to make it clear that the APYGN would share non-financial resources as well.

Following this discussion the Rules were agreed by consensus! The adopted Rules document canbe found at http:// apgn2010.org/rules-apgn. These new rules achieved the objective of afundamentally restructured APGN.

Elections

Up next were the nomination speeches from each candidate for election followed by a delightfulritual devised by the Tibetan Women's Association. They honoured the candidates by presentingeach one with a beautiful long white scarf which would be their gorgeous momento of thehistoric meeting.The election was conducted using a system known as “Single TransferrableVote”. Each delegate received a ballot paper with the names of all candidates; they wereinstructed to number the candidates in their order of preference. The results of the electionswere as follows.

Global Greens Coordination Group

Six nominations were received for the three positions available on the Global GreensCoordination Group. One of these six was declared invalid as the candidate was not from a FullMember organization. Elected were:

Sandra PENG (Taiwan Green Party)

Margaret BLAKERS (Australian Greens)

Liaquat Ali SHAIKH (Pakistan Green Party).

APGN Coordinating Committee

Ten candidates nominated for the seven positions on the APGN Coordinating Committee fromFull Member Organizations. Elected were:

Suresh NAUTIYAL (Uttarakhand Parivartan Party [India])

Miriam SOLOMON (Australian Greens)

Robin WINKLER (Taiwan Green Party)

Jessica ZANETTI (Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand)

Jong Hwa JANG (Korea Greens)

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Roy CABONEGRO (Partido Kalikasan [Philippine Green Party])

Shuji IMAMOTO (Ecolo Japan)

One Associate Member Representative on the Committee nominated and was electedunopposed:

Sanka Chandima Abayawardena

Strategic Plan

The Five Year Strategic Plan as amended on day 1 was adopted by consensus without any needfor further discussion. However there had been insufficient time to discuss Part B, theOperational Plan (a detailed plan of the steps that would be taken to operationalise the strategicPlan), so it was agreed that the task of finalising this plan and establishing the WorkingCommittees and Action Groups arising would be passed on to the new APGN Co-ordinationCommittee. The Strategic Plan, as adopted can be found at http://apgn2010.org/apgn-5-year-strategic-plan.

Resolutions and Fair Share Declaration

The final formal business was consideration of the “Fair Share” declaration (found athttp://apgn2010.org/fair-share-declaration and reproduced in Attachment 4) and the 17resolutions. A draft Fair Share Declaration prepared by the Congress Organisers was adopted byconsensus after slight amendment, and most of the resolutions were adopted by consensus atthe first sessions but a few were referred back for further discussion and amendment beforebeing adopted after the lunch-break.

The topics of the adopted resolutions, found in Attachment 5 and athttp://www.apgn2010.org/adopted-resolutions, , are as follows:

1. Thanks to APGN Membership Panel and Global Greens Coordination representatives (served2005-2010)

2. Amending the Sao Paolo Global Greens climate declaration

3. Rights of Mother Earth

4. Taipei Accord on Climate Change and Renewable Energy

5. Shift in Paradigms and Systems that Govern Societies

6. Himalayan region and Tibetan water issues

7. Taiwan’s Involvement in UNFCCC

8. Proposal re Biodiversity

9. Antarctic Whale Sanctuary

10. Asia Pacific Peace Day

11. Asia Pacific Conflicts

12. Depleted Uranium Weapons

13. Nuclear Power in the Asia Pacific region

14. Gold and Nuclear Programs in Mongolia

15. HighTech Industries

16. Green Growth

Closing Ceremony

The closing ceremony involved representatives from each attending country taking theopportunity to share their insights of the last few days and their hopes for the future.

Some of the most touching or amusing moments were the most spontaneous: being charmed

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each day by the polite manner and happy smiles worn by the countless young Taiwanesevolunteers; a group of Tibetan women ritually presenting a long white scarf to each electedofficer; sober greens upstaging the ones enjoying a tipple by sharing improvised live song andmusic on stage; the PNG delegate challenging her fellow greens to beat her $100 USD bid on awacky Taiwanese toy mascot; celebrating success by stamping our feet, clapping and hooting allat the same time - bringing to life once again the Global Greens Charter clause 10.11: “Willsupport each other personally and politically with friendship, optimism and good humour, andnot forget to enjoy ourselves in the process!”. This spirit of friendship was well expressed byseveral delegates inviting all of us to visit their countries, with some even offering to host thenext APGN Congress!

Acknowledgements

The list of all those who made this Congress so successful is too long to mention. Howeverparticular thanks must go to the members of the Congress Organizing Committee, thesponsors, donors and volunteers, the indigenous performers, authors of and contributors to theCongress proposals, members of the Procedures Committee and the facilitators of formalsessions, Open Space meetings and Workshops during the Congress. Attachment 6 givesdetails.

ATTACHMENT 4. “FAIR SHARE” DECLARATION

Fair Share Declaration (http://www.apgn2010.org/fair-share-declaration)

We have gathered here in Taipei as members and supporters of the Asia Pacific Greens Network,to share with each other our concerns about the grave threats to our planet and its inhabitants,and our ideas about urgent actions that are needed to address the most pressing issues thatconcern us.

Our core message is that whether the issue is catostrophic climate change that is imminent, orspecies extinction, or loss of viable agriculture, or security threats in our region, or humanrights violations in many of our countries, or the lack of genuine democracy in many of ourcountries, for any solution to be both just and workable, it must incorporate the principle of FairShare.

We, the Asia-Pacific Greens Network APGN 2010 Congress:

Recognizing that concentration and centralization of resources generally leads to inefficiency;

Recognizing that the Earth has long overshot its capacity to regenerate itself due to the currentextreme levels of both resource extraction and deposits of waste into the biosphere by humans(ecological overshoot);

Recognizing that as a general rule, the wealthier a country in terms of consumption and GrossDomestic Product, the greater its contribution to ecological overshoot;

Recognizing that humans do not currently know enough to prioritize any one species or onebeing above another, or any one use of habitat in favor of another, and therefore must act inaccordance with the principle of precaution;

Recognizing the importance of all life and habitat to human survival;

Recognizing that the injustice and threats to the security, health and wellbeing of any amongour populations are ultimately a threat to all of us;

Call for:

Fair share for all in the current generation;

Fair share for future generations;

Fair share to address the systemic disadvantages caused by injustices of past generations;

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Fair share for all the other species with whom we share this planet;

Now therefore urge:

Those with power and the means to use it commit themselves to working to redress theinequities of power and resources and to bring about sustainable human practices aimed atsatisfying current needs without sacrificing the ability of future generations - of humans andOthers - to satisfy their needs;

As we are here in Taiwan, APGN calls on the Taiwan Government to enact measures to achievethe principles of Fair Share in Taiwan.

ATTACHMENT 5. ADOPTED RESOLUTIONS

1. Thanks to APGN Membership Panel and Global Greens Coordination

Membership Panel:

Ms Miriam SolomonMs Moena Thibral Heiura Mr Olzod Bum-Yalagch Dr Inwhan Jung Mr Suresh Nautiyal Mr Liaquat Ali Shaikh

Global Greens Coordination

Ms Margaret Blakers Ms Satoko Watanabe Mr Solomone Fifita

2. Amending the Sao Paolo Global Greens climate declaration

Australia - Margaret Blakers

There is no mechanism to amend Global Greens Declarations, so this resolution is in two parts:

1. That, provided all Global Greens Federations agree, the Sao Paolo Declaration titled 'ClimateChange -- Time for Transformation' may be amended. 2. That a new paragraph be added at the end of the Declaration as follows:

Addendum [date to be inserted]Two years after the Sao Paolo meeting, the Global Greenssupport the target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levelsproposed at the Copenhagen climate conference by the Pacific nation of Tuvalu, and backed bysmall island states and other vulnerable countries.

3. Rights of Mother Earth

Australia, Taiwan, India, Pakistan Elissa Jenkins

The APGN endorses the Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth adopted by the World People’sClimate Conference in Bolivia in April 2010.

4. Taipei Accord on Climate Change and Renewable Energy

Shuji Imamoto (ECOLO Japan), Robin Winkler (Taiwan Greens),Luke Dodds (Taiwan Greens),Inwhan Jung (Korea Greens), Ozlod Boum-Yalaguch (Mongolian Green Movement), Kumi Kato(The Australian Greens), Bob Hale (The Australian Greens) , Bob Muntz (The Australian Greens).

The APGN member groups will take the following steps:

1. Asia Pacific Greens from Annex I countries in the Kyoto Protocol, call on their governments

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to promise GHG reduction targets followed by a certain level of thorough research and policydetails by 2012. 2. Call for a stronger and permanent campaign for their governments and industries topromise much higher binding, mandatory targets both by 2020 and 2050, to realise thelarge-scale reduction of GHG emissions with respect to the 1990 level. 3. Call on our respective governments to ensure that they actively give direct financial andtechnical support to less industrialized countries to make the transition to sustainable energyresources and improve energy efficiency. 4. Pressure governments and electricity companies to establish concrete targets to implementrenewable energy, and call on governments in each country to promote renewable energy andtechnologies for delivery and storage in the most effective ways.

5. Shift in Paradigms and Systems that Govern Societies

Sri Lanka Green Alliance, Sanka Chandima Abayawardena

The APGN demands mechanisms that take into account indigenous and local knowledge,sciences, ideologies and concepts. This would include conducting research of the causes andimpacts of climate change and to create impact models at regional, national and global levels.We also support localised adaptation and mitigation techniques to address climate change andpressure all parties at all levels to facilitate indigenous and local solutions.

6. Himalayan region and Tibetan water issues:

India + Tibet (Suresh and Tenzin Norbu)

Background:

The Himalayan Region including the Tibetan Plateau is one of the most threatened ecosystemsin the world. The principle of “fair share” should apply to waters originating in the Himalayanregion including Tibetan Plateau. In recognition that the current trend towards damming theserivers has a severe detrimental effect on other Asian nations, development should involvecollaboration with all down stream nations and seek to preserve biodiversity.

APGN calls on

1. Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, authorities in occupied Tibet and other Himalayan states toevolve a collective and comprehensive policy to protect its ecosystems, people, plants andanimals. 2. The People’s Republic of China to ratify treaties related to international water sharingissues.

7. Taiwan’s Involvement in UNFCCC

Taiwan - Robin Winkler

Acknowledging that sources of GHG emissions and the consequences of climate change areglobal in nature…

The APGN firmly supports the right of the people of Taiwan to fully and fairly participate ininternational bodies that seek to foster international cooperation in confronting climate changesuch as the UNFCCC. We further acknowledge that excluding any group or region fromparticipating in such bodies weakens the ability of the global community to effectively addressclimate change.

8. Proposal re Biodiversity

Australia - Elliot Gingold

We call on Asian and Pacific governments to:

1. Acknowledge the critical importance of safeguarding biodiversity as part of our climatechange response and commit to urgent action to address the systemic drivers of biodiversityloss. 2. Substantially increase investment in biodiversity and ecosystem protection, restoration andmanagement. 3. Greatly expand national and region-wide protected area systems over land and sea. 4. Work with local communities to preserve forests and uphold their rights to manage forestresources and secure sustainable livelihoods; and to stop the destruction of natural forests for

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biofuel plantations. 5. End over-fishing and destructive fishing practices and move rapidly to sustainablefisheries. 6. Prevent environmentally and socially destructive mining, minerals and energy projects.

9. Antarctic Whale Sanctuary

Aotearoa New Zealand - Russell Norman

In this international year of biodiversity this conference call on the worlds community ofnations to:

1. List Antarctica & its oceans as a World Heritage Site for all times 2. Protect the region’s (Antarctica) wildlife, including whales and all ecosystems, and 3. Take urgent action to reverse climate change, ocean acidification + direct human impact,which threatens the Antarctic region and its biodiversity.

10. Asia Pacific Peace Day

Korean Greens - Inwhan Jung

The APGN encourages its members to commemorate an annual ‘Asia Pacific Peace Day’ to buildup collaborative efforts for peace and happiness in keeping with both human and ecologicalvirtues of people in this region. The APGN asks the Coordination Committee to work withmembers to agree on a specific date.

11. Asia Pacific Conflicts

Pakistan – Liaquat Shaikh Ali

APGN demands the international community plays their role to stop wars in the Asia Pacificregion, bring peace and let regional countries solve their issues themselves through peacefuldialogue particularly worst affected countries, such as Afghanistan and Iraq and also longstanding conflicts between India & Pakistan, Palestine & Israel, China & Taiwan, South & NorthKorea.

12. Depleted Uranium Weapons

Jason Hoy and Miriam Solomon (for the Australian Greens)

Background:

Opposition to depleted uranium weapons is stated in article 9.5 of the Global Greens Charter.

The manufacture of depleted uranium weapons continues in the absence of an international banon use of such armaments.

The issue of depleted uranium weapons will be on the agenda of the UN General Assembly forits 65th Session beginning in September 2010.

Resolution:

In an effort to break the arms race spiral and build world peace APGN:

1. Urges all member organizations to raise awareness of depleted uranium weapons in theirhome countries and pressure their governments to expedite an international ban on suchweapons and munitions. 2. Supports the Taiwan Green Party’s efforts to make Taiwan DU free, and to make all militaryusage of depleted uranium a crime against humanity.

13. Nuclear Power in the Asia Pacific region

(proposed by Greens Japan, Ecolo Japan, Green Party Taiwan, Partido Kalikasan, Korea Greens,Mongolian National Green Movement) Keisuke Miyazawa (Greens Japan)

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The APGN recommends that its members promote the sharing of information concerning thenuclear power of each country and strengthen the network with a view to stopping all existingand proposed nuclear power plants, uranium mining and disposal in the Asia Pacific Region,including: Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia,Mongolia, Australia, Philippines, India, Pakistan.

We oppose nuclear plants in the region because for most countries in the region, our geology istoo unstable for nuclear plants with significant risk of earthquakes. The problem of spentnuclear fuel disposal has not been resolved in any Asia Pacific countries,. And finally, for theentire world nuclear energy development increases the risk of proliferation of nuclear weapons.

To show of our resolve, the APGN to calls on the government of Taiwan to recognize that thereare no safe conditions for nuclear construction in Taiwan and to abort plans for the proposed4th nuclear power plant of Taiwan. The expansion of nuclear power plants in the region MUSTSTOP NOW

14. Gold and Nuclear Programs in Mongolia

Mongolian Green Movement – Saruul Agvaandorjiin

Rationale:

Mongolia is being exploited by foreign and domestic gold mining companies causing severeenvironmental, health and human rights problems. In addition, the government secretlyapproved a law to allow nuclear power to be used.

Resolution:

The APGN calls on the government of Mongolia to halt the gold program, reverse the decision toallow nuclear power, and instead invest in the renewable energy sector to create sustainablegreen jobs.

15. HighTech Industries

Taiwan – Chang Chia-Wei

In light of the inadequate infrastructure and ill-functioned local laws to regulate high-techindustry, especially electronic industry in this region, we, Asia and Pacific Greens call on theattention to the following issues:

1. Governments and corporations should fully disclose information on chemicals used in themanufacturing process to the public; 2. All corporations shall be held accountable to the international standards such as ILOInternational Core Labor standards and EICC; and companies should follow the laws on safetyenvironment and compensations of their country of origin and local countries (which ever ismore comprehensive). 3. International institutions designing international standards and frameworks for ethical andresponsible high-tech industry should take into account the concerns of and work inconsultation with environmental NGOs in the Asia Pacific region.

16. “Green Growth”

Korean Greens - Inwhan Jung

APGN advocates that inappropriate “Green Growth” projects should be opposed, such asnational scale dredging, flood gating and expansion of nuclear generation.

17. Death Penalty

Taiwan + India - Han-Shen Pan

Recalling the Article 6.10 of the Global Green Charter demanding that the death penalty shouldbe abolished worldwide…

The APGN urges States in the region, notably the 2010 APGN host country Taiwan, to abolishthe death penalty.

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ATTACHMENT 7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Committee Members

Leo Chang 張宏林, Green Party Taiwan, Taiwan Friends of Global GreensHan-Shen Pan 潘翰聲, Green Party Taiwan,Sandra Yenwen Peng 彭渰雯, Green Party TaiwanRobin Winkler 文魯彬, Taiwan Friends of Global Greens, Green Party Taiwan Shu-Hsin Tsui 崔愫欣, Green Party TaiwanTammy Turner 唐敏, Pristine CommunicationsChung-Ming Wang 王鐘銘, Green Party TaiwanJorie Wu 吳咨杏, CP Yen FoundationKeli Yen 顏克莉, CP Yen Foundation

Project Secretary

Ying-hsuan Li 李盈萱

Australian Partners

Margaret Blakers, The Green InstituteAnna Reynolds, International Advisor Office of Senator Bob BrownMiriam Solomon, Australian Greens and APGN Membership Panel

PROCEDURES COMMITTEE

Sandra PengShuji ImamotoSuresh NautiyalRoland SapsfordMiriam Solomon

ELECTION COMMITTEE

Dierk von Behrens (Returning Officer) Olzod Boum-Yalagch, Calvin Wen Ilya Kristine Ravanera (Assistant Returning Officers)

FACILITATORS AT FORMAL SESSIONS

Margaret BlakersDr. Chuluunbaatar EnkhzayaRaju PanditElissa JenkinsMarstella Jack

FACILITATORS OF OPEN SPACE MEETINGS

Jorie WuJackie ChangGail West

And indigenous Taiwanese Bunun Performance Group from Kalibu (Wang-Hsiang Village).

Donors

A detailed listing of donors is available in the Congress Manual here: http://apgn2010.org/sites/default/files/APGN%20Congress%20Manual-%20English.pdf

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Global Green Federations

African Green Federation

Asia Pacific Greens Federation

Federation of Green Parties ofthe Americas

European Green Party

Global Greens Network

APGF Green Parties

Australian Green Party

Uttarakhand Parivartan Party(UKPP)

Sarekat Hijau(Indonesian Green Union)

Greens Japan

Green Party Korea

Mongolian Green Party

Civil Will Green Party ofMongolia

Nepali Greens

Green Party of Aotearoa NewZealand

Pakistan Green Party

GREENS PH (Philippine GreenParty/Partido Kalikasan)

Green Party Taiwan

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