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SIGN THE DECLARATIONWe are 27 people who have been elected to change laws and change lives.
We are at one in our belief in the need for a rapid and just transition to an economy that operates within planetary boundaries and supports human flourishing.
This declaration sets out the principles that must underpin that transition.
We commit to advancing them nationally and globally and invite politicians around the world to join us.
Over 300 politicians from 44 nations have signed our declaration.
Find out whether your representative has signed, and if not use the form below to invite them to sign.
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THE DECLARATION FOR A GREEN NEW DEAL
We believe the wellbeing of people and the planet must be placed at the heart of the political agenda.
Plans for economic, social, racial, and environmental justice will be different in each country, but our shared experience of advancing a transformative agenda will inform and inspire all of us.
A Green New Deal consists of two main strands:
Firstly, it involves the redesign of national and international financial systems so that they serve the needs of people and planet, and major changes to taxation;
Secondly, significant investment in energy conservation and renewable energies coupled with policies that reduce resource use in the global north. This means transforming the way we travel, the way we grow food, manage land, value the people who care for us and the way we work. These ambitious programmes must be designed to reduce the use of fossil fuels and restore nature at the scale and speed that science tells us is necessary. They need to address inequality within and between nations by focussing resources on the communities and places around the world where they are needed most.
As elected representatives, we commit to working towards a Green New Deal that:
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BUILDS AN ECONOMY THAT DELIVERS WELLBEING FOR ALL OF US:
The dominant economic system in the vast majority of the world is designed to pursue economic growth at any cost. We need new measures of progress that reflect the health and wellbeing of the real economy and ecosystems, account for long-term risks, and prioritise people and the planet over profits.
We will redesign economies so that never again can so much be hoarded by so few, because every human being has the right to universal health care, free education (from early childhood to higher education), a life free of systemic racism, sexism, and xenophobia, and everyone has the right to a living wage, healthy working hours and the ability to organise collectively.
With the right regulatory frameworks, monetary tools, and fiscal mechanisms, we will channel the investment needed to transform our homes and buildings, industry, energy, manufacturing, land, agriculture, and the systems of care that support us all to meet the challenges of the crises in climate and nature.
We will work together to regulate illicit financial flows, stop capital flight, end tax havens, and ensure that the world’s biggest corporations and wealthiest people pay their fair share of tax.
We will dismantle the systems of predatory finance that are responsible for keeping governments on a debt-treadmill, undermining public services and contributing to social and environmental destruction.
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PROTECTS AND ENHANCES THE EARTH WE SHARE
Every human being has the right to clean air, water, healthy soil and farming methods that produce healthy and affordable food. Together, we can ensure that the Earth’s resources belong to all of us and are protected in our lifetime and for generations to come.
Many of the world’s poorest people, communities, and countries are suffering disproportionately from the consequences of the climate and nature crises—despite being least responsible for causing them. Historically and today, the poorest communities have had their resources exploited and have been the most exposed to environmental destruction. We will address these inequalities and the practices that underpin them.
We commit to action that will limit global temperature rises to below 1.5 degrees above pre-industrialised levels while reversing long standing inequalities within and between nations. We will work to limit the impact of the changes that can no longer be averted, including increased wildfires, heatwaves, extreme rainfall, and tornadoes. We will not be able to prevent all disasters, so will work to develop public capacity to act rapidly and protect the most vulnerable populations.
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CREATES A CARING LOW-CARBON SOCIETY
We will work to expand the care economy, creating millions of socially necessary, low-carbon jobs in care, health and education, employing a new generation of youth leaders and community organisers. A job guarantee will make sure that everyone who wants to has the choice to work for their community and the planet.
We will provide a wide range of training options, guaranteed wages and benefits, equitable access to the millions of jobs created in the transition and involvement in the process of change to all, particularly those people and communities whose livelihoods are dependent on today’s high carbon industries.
We will build a new green industrial and agricultural policy powered by clean energy —with publicly-owned technologies freely available to countries around the world, particularly in the global south.
We will strengthen the labour movement, championing co-operatives, employee ownership and profit sharing, working to advance worker power and representation.
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SHAPES A FAIR MULTILATERAL SYSTEM FIT FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
We will work to ensure that the world’s governments and the Bretton Woods institutions (International Monetary Fund and the World Bank) provide immediate debt cancelation for the world’s poorest countries and deploy what are known as Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) and other innovative financial instruments to help nations recover from the economic fallout of COVID-19.
We will work to reform the governance of the Bretton Woods institutions to ensure that they are democratically governed; include transparent, fair and balanced dispute resolution mechanisms; and foster international cooperation and human dignity. In the short term, we will work to ensure that they provide the poorest countries with the financing they need for a sustainable recovery.
We will work to end unsustainable debt payments that prevent countries from using the fiscal space they need to recover from the pandemic and to build the transition.
We will work to advance climate reparations, using international resources to address inequalities caused or exacerbated by the climate crisis.
We will work to renegotiate and roll back global and bilateral trade agreements that have exploited workers and ecosystems, instead advancing a true multilateralism fit for the twenty-first century.
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SECURES ENVIRONMENTAL AND RACIAL JUSTICE, SHAPING A TRULY DEMOCRATIC FUTURE IN WHICH EVERYONE HAS A ROLE TO PLAY
We will look after people who have been forced to leave their homes as a result of hostile economic conditions, armed conflict or environmental conditions, including asylum-seekers, refugees and climate refugees.
We will pursue coordinated immigration policies that honor the dignity of all people, fostering global cooperation by addressing the root causes of migration; protecting migrants, particularly the most vulnerable migrant populations, ensuring their human rights are respected; and providing the resources they need to settle.
We will build more democratic, inclusive and pluralistic societies, and are committed to working together to find economic, social and environmental solutions to meet the needs of diverse communities, respecting land rights, human rights and the right to resources and services.
By democratising policymaking, encouraging citizen participation, and regulating political campaign finance, we will ensure our political systems respond to the needs of the many, rather than catering to the greed of a few.
signatories of the declaration
To date, over 300 parliamentarians from 44 nations have signed the Declaration. More as signing each week.
Aotearoa New Zealand: Chlöe Swarbrick MP; Julie Anne Genter MP, Jan Logie MP: Eugenie Sage MP; Golriz Ghahraman MP; Teanau Tuiono MP; Dr Elizabeth Kerekere MP; Ricardo Menéndez March MP; Debbie Ngarewa-Packer MP; Rawiri Waititi MP; Marama Davidson MP; James Shaw MP.
Argentina: Leonardo Grosso MP.
Australia: Adam Bandt MP; Sarah Hanson-Young MP; Larissa Waters MP; Shane Rattenbury MP; Sam Hibbins MP; Cate Faehrmann MP; Abigail Boyd MP; Janet Rice MP; David Shoebridge MP; Jenny Leong MP; Jamie Parker MP; Tamara Smith MP; Nick Mckim MP; Rebecca Vassarotti MP; Lidia Thorpe MP; Pete Whish-Wilson MP; Mehreen Faruqi MP; Jordan Steele-John MP; Johnathan Davis MP; Cassy O’connor MP; Rosalie Woodruff MP.
Bangladesh: Saber Chowdhury MP.
Belgium: Saskia Bricmont MEP; Philippe Lamberts MEP.
Bolivia: Betty Beatriz Yañiquez Lozano MP.
Bosnia & Herzegovina: Sanela Kleric MP; Miomirka Melank MP; Adis Arapovic MP; Mirela Trepanic Grbesic MP; Azra Hadzic MP; Sanela Prasovic Gadzo MP; Mirsad Čamdžić MP.
Brazil: Dep Joenia Wapichana; Dep Israel Matos Batista; Dep. Alessandro Molon; Dep. Camilo Capiberibe; Dep. Professor Israel; Dep. Rodrigo Agostinho; Dep. Vivi Reis; Dep. Carlos Veras ; Dep. Erika Kokay; Dep. Nilto Tatto; Dep. Marcelo Freixo; Dep. Enio Verri; Senador Paulo Paim; Sen Fabiano Contarato; Senador Jaques Wagner; Dep. Tabata Amaral; Dep Talíria Petrone; Dep. Fernanda Melchiona; Dep. Luiza Erundina; Dep. Aurea Carolina; Dep. David Miranda; Dep. Ivan Valente; Dep. Samia Bomfim.
Canada: Elizabeth May MP; Peter Julian MP; Mike Morrice MP; Marit Stiles MP; Matthew Green MP; Leah Gazan MP.
Chile: Tucapel Jiménez MP.
Colombia: Rep Maria Jose Pizarro.
Costa Rica: Dep Paola Vega; Dep Mario Castillo-Méndez.
Denmark: Nikolaj Villumsen MEP.
Ecuador: Esther Cuesta MP; Rosa Belen Mayorga MP; Sofia Espin MP; Monica Palacios MP; Lenin Mera Cedeno MP; Marcela Holguin Naranjo MP; Gustavo Mateus MP; Mariuxi Cleopatra Sánchez Sarango MP: María Vanessa Álava Moreira MP; Juan Cristobal Lloret MP: Ferdinan Alvarez Zambrano MP; Jhajaira Urresta MP; Ana Herrera Gómez MP; Ronny Xavier Aleaga Santos MP; Patricia Mendoza Jiménez MP; Ronal Eduardo Gonzalez Valero MP; Roberto Cuero Medina MP; Jose Chavez MP; Ana Cecilia Herrera MP; Mauricio Zambrano MP; Virgilio Hernández MP; Raisa Irina Corral Alava MP; Patricia Nuñez MP; Johanna Ortiz MP; José Luis Vallejo MP; José Agualsaca MP; Verónica Arias MP; Eduardo Kaviedes MP; Ricardo Ulcuango Farinango MP.
Finland: Alviina Alametsä MEP; Silvia Modig MEP.
France: Manon Aubry MEP; Danièle Obono MP; Manuel Bompard MEP; Marie Toussaint MEP; Leïla Chaibi MEP; Aurore Lalucq MEP; Michel Larive MP; Damien Careme MP.
Gabon: Hon Angelique Ngoma; Paulette Mounguengui MP ;Ven Mistow Flore; Hon Nso Ameng; Hon Jonas Mabicka Ibiatsi; Hon Charles Otando; Hon Adelaide Sylvie Kotha; Ven James Rogombe Constantin; Ven Adande; Hon Aurelian Ntoutoume Mebiame; Hon Alain Simplice Boungoueres; Hon Yves Fernand Manfoumbi; Niklas Nienaß MEP.
Germany: Noichl Maria MEP; Cornelia Ernst MEP; Michels MEP.
Greece: Yanis Varoufakis MP; Petros Kokkalis MEP.
Hungary: Bernadett Szél MP.
Indonesia: Ibu Mercy Barends MP.
Ireland: Grace O'Sullivan MEP; Ciarán Cuffe MEP.
Israal: Raz Mossi MP.
Italy: Rosa D'Amato MEP; Piernicola Pedicini MEP; Eleonora Evi MEP.
Malaysia: Charles Santiago MP.
Mexico: Héctor Díaz Polanco MP.
The Netherlands: Anja HazekaMP MEP.
Nigeria: Boma Goodhead MP; Hon. Prince Nnam-Obiu; Hon. Dagogo Doctor Farah; Hon. Emerengwa Boniface Sunday; Hon. Dekor Dumnamene Robinson; Hon. Gogo Bright Tamuno; Hon. Igwe Chinyere Emmanuel; Hon. Obua Azibapu Fred; Hon. Isreal Sunny Goli; Hon. Ndudi Godwin Elumelu; Hon. Pondi Julius G.; Hon. Nwokolo Victor Onyemaechi; Hon. Osai Nickolas Osai; Hon. Waive Ejiroghene Francis; Hon. Asuquo Daniel Effiong; Hon. Edim Etta Mbora; Hon. Idagbo Ochiglegor; Hon. Mohammed Omar Bio; Hon. Onofiok Akpan Luke; Hon. Uduyok Francis Charles; Hon. Ekpeyong Nse Bassey; Hon. Enyong Micheal Okon; Hon. Igariwey Iduma Enwo; Hon. Anayo Edwin; Hon. Makwe Livinus Makwe; Hon. Jude Ise-Idehen; Hon. Ogun Sergius Oseasochie; Hon. Ogbeide-Ihama Omoregie; Hon. West Idahosa Denis; Hon. Emeka Martins Chinedu; Hon. Nwajuba Chukwuemeka; Hon. Adejoro Adeogun; Hon. Akinjo Kolade Victor; Hon. Akinfolarin Mayowa Samuel; Hon. Peter Abiola Makinde; Hon. Akeem Adeniyi Adeyemi; Hon. Akinola Adekunle Alabi; Hon. Abass Adigun Adekunle; Hon. Ajibola Saubana Muriana; Hon. Ojerinde Olumide Abiodun; Hon. Simon Davou Mwadkwon; Hon. Dachung Musa Bagos; Hon. Jiba Yohanna Micah; Hon. Chris Emeka Ifeanyi; Hon. Gimba Zainab; Hon. Ofumelu Vincent Ekene; Hon. Kwemum Rimamnde Shawulu; Hon. Baido Danladi Tijos; Hon. Adaramodu Adeyemi Rapheal; Hon. Magaji Amos Gwamna; Hon. Solomon Bob; Hon. Abiante Awaji-Inombek Dagomie; Hon. Rahis Abdulkabir; Hon. Uju Kingsley C; Hon. Chinda Kingsley Ogundu; Hon. Chikere Kenneth Anayo; Hon. Agbedi Fredrick Y.; Hon. Preye Influence Goodluck Oseke; Hon. Stephen Sinikiem Azaiki; Hon. Mutu Nicholas Ebomo; Hon. Ben Roland Igbakpa; Hon Ogor Leonard Okuweh; Hon. Oberuakpefe Anthony Afe; Hon. Thomas Ereyitomi; Hon. Agibe Chris Ngoro; Hon. Ayi Essien Ekpenyon; Hon. Etaba Micheal Irom; Hon. Egboma Alex; Hon. Ifon Patrick Nathan; Hon. Emmanuel Ukpong-Udo Effiong; Hon. Ikong Nsikak Okon; Hon. Uyime Josiah Idem; Hon. Sylvester Ogbaga; Hon. Chukwuma Alughala Nwazunku; Hon. Ogbee Lazarus N.; Hon. Akpatason Peter Ohiozojeh; Hon. Edionwele Joseph E.; Hon. Johnson Johnny Egwakhide Oghuma; Hon. Adekoya Adesegun Abdel-Majid; Hon. Julius Ihonvbere; Hon. Bede Eke Uchenna; Hon. Okubunmi Tunju-Ojo; Hon. Omolafe Isaac Adebayo; Hon. Tajudeen Adeyemi Adefisoye; Hon. Ikengbolu Gboluga Dele; Hon. Adelegbe Oluwatimehin E.; Hon. Akintola Oluokun George; Hon. Olaide Adewale Akinremi; Hon. Olajide Adedeji Stanley; Hon. Oluyemi Adewale Taiwo; Hon. Shina Abiola Peller; Hon. Solomon Bulus Maren; Hon. Hassan Sokodabo Usman; Hon. Ayiya Valentine Ogbonna; Hon. Chukwuka Onyema Wilfred; Hon. Ezenwankwo Okwudili; Hon. Mohammed Umaru Bago; Hon. David Fuoh; Hon. Fatoba Olusola Steve; Hon. Yakubu Umar Barde; Hon. Shehu Nickolas Garba.
Northern Ireland: Stewart Dickson MLA.
Pakistan: Mushahid Sayed MP.
Peru: Dep Ruth Luque; Dep. Margot Palacios Huamán; Dep Pierine Correa; Dep Kelly Portalatino Ávalos.
Philippines: Senator Rita Hontiveros.
Poland: Dariusz Standerski MP.
Portugal: Marisa Matias; MEP; José Gusmão MEP; Miguel Costa Matos MP.
Rwanda: Frank Habineza MP; Ntezimana Jean Claude MP; Alexis Mugisha MP.
Scotland: Paul Sweeney MSP.
South Korea: Hyeyeong Jang MP.
Spain: Ernest Urtusan MEP; Idoia Villanueva Ruiz MEP; Sira Rego MEP; Manu Pineda MEP; María Eugenia Rodriguez Palop MEP; Jordi Solé MEP; Pernando Barrena MEP; Diana Riba I Giner MEP; Ana Surra MP.
Sweden: Malin Björk MEP.
Switzerland: Daniel Jositsch MP.
Tanzania: Zitto Kabwe.
Uganda: Lawrence Biyika Songa MP; Robinah K. Nanyunja MP.
UK: Caroline Lucas MP; Clive Lewis MP; Kate Osborne MP; Marsha De Cordova MP; Paula Barker MP; Emma Lewell-Buck MP; John McDonnell MP; Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP; Nadia Whittome MP; Ian Lavery MP; Dan Carden MP; Grahame Morris MP; Rebecca Long-Bailey MP; Dawn Butler MP; Kim Johnson MP; Diane Abbott MP; Tahir Ali MP; Ian Mearns MP; Rachael Maskell MP; Mary Foy MP; Beth Winter MP; Bell Riberio-Addy MP; Tony Lloyd MP; Peter Dowd MP; Jeremy Corbyn MP; Peter Bottomley MP; Zarah Sultana MP; Jon Cruddas MP; Debbie Abrahams MP; Wera Hobhouse MP; Andrew Gwynne MP; Ben Lake MP; Claudia Webbe MP; Alan Brown MP; Richard Burgon MP; Carol Monaghan MP; Liz Saville Roberts MP; Hywel Williams MP; Stephen Farry MP; Kenny MaCaskil MP; Claire Hanna MP.
US: Rep Ilhan Omar; Rep Rashida Tlaib.
