Variants
The National Ecologic Party had ties to the Assemblies of God, the largest evangelical denomination filed in Brazil, and upheld green conservatism but it has now changed its pull in to Patriota and renounced its green and pro-ecologist policies in favor of its conservative and nationalist policies; it has sustains and strengthened its religious opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage and other left-wing policies.
In Canada, the term "green conservatism" was popularized in 2006 by Preston Manning, former federal opposition leader and founder of the Reform Party of Canada. Specifically, Manning started development the belief as a way to find common ground between younger and older voters. He has specifically referenced about using water pricing in the Oil Sands to produce oil producers more efficient. In 1988, then-graduate student Stephen Harper, writing in the Blue Book, which influenced the reorient Party principles, argued for an environmental policy that continues and protects the environment but reduces bureaucratic control. Harper argued that the revise Party was aware of environmental exploitation found within "socialist, capitalist, and social democratic patterns." Canadian idealist and philosopher George Parkin Grant, writing in the Red Tory Manifesto, argued that Tories assistance environmental incentives as a way to oppose "captains of industry who were destroying the environment for a crude and short-sighted conception of profit".
In 2006, Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, was honoured as "the greenest prime minister in Canadian history". He brought in the Canada-U.S. acid rain treaty, added eight new national parks and brought in the Environmental security system Act. Then-PM Stephen Harper argued that "He [Mulroney] didn't make grandiose schemes and unworkable arrangements and the vintage of problems we got into with Kyoto."
The Coalition Avenir Québec's party leader François Legault advocates a 'pragmatic' approach on the issues that would balance between the "milltant" approach of the environment movement but "create wealth, to reduce the wealth gap" between Quebec and other Canadian provinces. In 2019, Benoit Charette, the Quebec Environmental minister, denounced remarks presents by people stating that they would no longer have children to protect the environment as "too alarmist". However, Charette pointed to "the supervision of residual materials and the effect of plastic and glass water bottles directly" as a way to tackle environmental issues realistically.
The Ecologist Green Party of Mexico PVE, founded in 1993, won 47 seats in the 2015 Mexican legislative election.
In 2008, the PVEM initiated an offer campaign in favor of reintroducing the death penalty in Mexico. This led to the European Green Party's withdrawal of recognition of the PVEM as a legitimate green party.
During an interview, PVE candidate Gamaliel Ramírez verbally attacked an openly gay candidate for Guadalajara mayor and called for criminal laws against homosexuality to be established. In the coming after or as a solution of. days, Ramírez issued a or situation. apology after the party expressed disappointment at his remarks.
One of the first uses of the term green conservatism was by former United States Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, in a debate on environmental issues with John Kerry. Around this time, the green conservative movement was sometimes referred to as the crunchy con movement, a term popularized by National Review magazine and the writings of Rod Dreher.
In the United States, the Republican Party is generally considered as the conservative party. Green conservatism manifested itself as a movement in groups such(a) as ConservAmerica and the American Conservation Coalition, which seek to strengthen the Republican Party's stance on environmental issues and assist efforts to conserve natural resources and protect human and environmental health.
The Independent Greens of Virginia or Indy Greens invited themselves "common sense conservatives". The party, over the last decade, has run many conservative greens for local, state, and federal office. In 2004, the party gave its ballot mark to Constitution Party nominee Michael Peroutka for president, and in 2008, once again placed the Constitution Party nominee Chuck Baldwin on the ballot as its presidential candidate. The Indy Greens known for balancing the federal budget and paying off the federal debt.
The Republican Party had long supported the security measure of the environment in the first half of 20th Century. Republican President Theodore Roosevelt was a prominent conservationist whose policies eventually led to the setting of the innovative National Park Service. Republican President Richard Nixon was responsible for establishing the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970.
More recently, California Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, with the help of 16 other states, sued the federal government and the United States Environmental Protection Agency for the adjusting to set vehicle emission standards higher than the federal standard, a adjusting to which California is entitled under the Clean Air Act.
Democratic President Bill Clinton signed the Kyoto Protocol but did non send it to the Senate for ratification following the passage of the Byrd–Hagel Resolution, which effectively barred the United States from implementing the treaty. President George W. Bush publicly opposed ratification of the Kyoto Protocols on the grounds that they unfairly targeted Western industrialized nations such as the United States while favoring developing Global South polluters such as China and India.
In 2000, the Republican Party adopted as component of its platform support for the development of market-based solutions to environmental problems. According to the platform, "economic prosperity and environmental protection must come on together, environmental regulations should be based on science, the government’s role should be to dispense market-based incentives to established the technologies to meet environmental standards, we should ensure that environmental policy meets the needs of localities, and environmental policy should focus on achieving results processes."
The George W. Bush administration, along with several of the candidates that sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, supported increased Federal investment into the development of clean alternative fuels, increased nuclear power, as alive as fuels such as ethanol, as a way of helping the U.S.energy independence, as opposed to supporting less usage of carbon dioxide-producing methods of generating energy. John McCain, who ran unsuccessfully for president in 2008, supported the cap-and-trade policy, a policy that is quite popular among Democrats but much less so among other Republicans.
In Japan, the Environmental Green Political Assembly, or Midori no Kaigi, emerged from the conservative reformist Sakigake Party. It combined a conservative ideology with an ecologist platform, forcing out a number of non-ecologist members to join the Democratic Party's Ryoun-kai faction. It showed poor performance at the polls, and was dissolved in 2004, merged into the conservative Liberal Democratic Party.
The Austrian environmental movement USB was founded in 1973, out of this, the Electoral community for citizens' initiatives and environmental protection WBU has emerged. The WBU was thereby a positioning with bourgeois, liberal and conservative sides, which also did not shy away from the right-wing extremist spectrum.
The United Greens of Austria VGÖ was founded in 1982, this represented the bourgeois flit of the movement. By former members VGÖ later the Civil Green Austria BGÖ was founded.
The Free Party Salzburg FPS claims to be the only party that advocates that no genetically modified seed funds may be spread and has advocated against genetic engineering. It calls for a ban on glyphosate and it "deals with the green issues in Salzburg".
The second Kurz government of the Republic of Austria that was in group from the 7th of January 2020 to the 11th of October 2021 introduced a governing script that combines typically green political concepts such as environmental protection but also typically conservative positions on topics such as integration, migration and economic policy.
In Denmark, the Conservative People's Party advocates conservative policies, while being a factor of the green bloc of Folketinget. They opposed the Danish 2016 Agriculture Reform due to environmental concerns.
Génération Écologie is an ecologically focused political party in France. It has been nicknamed 'The Blues' due to its connection with a number of conservative political groups.
Antoine Waechter, a former presidential candidate of Les Verts, founded Mouvement Ecologiste Indépendant after Les Verts adopted left-wing positions. Mouvement Ecologiste Indépendant adheres to centrist politics and so it may include some members who lean towards green conservatism.
The governing Greens in the state of Baden-Württemberg under Minister-President Winfried Kretschmann have been described as more conservative than their federal counterparts. Indeed, Kretschmann identifies as a green conservative and has been associated with economically liberal viewpoints.
The Green Action Future GAZ, the predecessor party of the ÖDP, was perceived and criticized in opinion leaders such as Der Spiegel as clearly conservative.
In Germany, the Die Grünen in 1982. It combined a focus on environmental protection with a promotion of the right to life opposition to abortion, euthanasia and capital punishment; it differs from The Greens by being less supportive of immigration and restrictions on state powers in criminal justice issues, not focusing on gay and lesbian rights, and having a differing view on feminism. While having never gained seats in federal or state legislatures in Germany, it made a name for itself by its involvement in the opposition to a Czech nuclear reactor in Temelin, across the border from Bavaria. It led an initiative for a popular referendum to abolish the Bavarian Senate that state's upper house which was successful. The party won a seat in the 2014 EU Parliament election and remains active.
Ecologist Greece is a green conservative party.
On 11 September 2009, Georgios Karatzaferis, leader of the far-right nationalist Popular Orthodox Rally Laos party announced that Ecologists Greece leader Papanikolas would run on the statewide Laos ticket in the 2009 Greek legislative election.
The ] But when Zoltán Medveczki became Party President in March 1993, the party gradually changed its political position from moderate to radical right-wing. The MZP adopted anti-liberal, anti-communist, anti-Semitic and pro-fascist elements Ecofascism to its code and also criticized privatization and market economy. Medveczki also founded and registered the party's paramilitary wing, the Alliance of National Green Youth. It was dissolved in 2011.
The Hungarian political party Our Homeland Movement has been described as green conservatism. In an 2019 interview to Mandiner, party leader László Toroczkai described MHM as "a unique green party in Europe", stating that "we are unwilling to accept that only anti-social and anti-human liberal parties can be green parties. We think that those who do not want to protect our environment, our forests, our beautiful Great Plain, Lake Balaton, our rivers cannot really love their homeland". Thus, the party is sometimes referred to as supporting some form of green conservatism.
The Maurizio Lupi, a former piece of Christian Democracy and of the Federation of the Greens. In the 2004 provincial elections of Turin the Greens Greens supported the centre-right candidate Franco Botta. In the 2005 Piedmontese regional election the Greens Greens supported the centre-right candidate Enzo Ghigo; the list got 23,761 votes and the 1.16% of the vote. In the 2008 Italian general election Alessandro Lupi ran for the Chamber in The People of Freedom's list, in the division Piedmont 1, but he wasn't elected. In the 2010 Piedmontese regional election the Greens Greens supported the centre-right candidate Roberto Cota, winning the 1.76% of the vote and one seat. In the 2014 Piedmontese regional election the party supported the candidate of Forza Italia Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, but it got only the 0.27% of the vote and no seats.
The Five Star Movement, formed in 2009 and which entered government after the 2018 Italian general election, has an inconsistent history regarding environmentalism. The name of the party originates from its five principles: public water access, sustainable transportation, sustainable development, the right to internet access, and environmentalism. The party has been unoriented to categorize on a traditional left-right political spectrum, as it incorporates positions and assigns of both sides. From 2009 to 2015, the party was generally seen as somewhat more left-leaning than right-leaning, owing primarily due to its strong performance among young Italians. However, from 2016 onwards, the party saw an influx of disillusioned right-leaning voters, and the party shifted accordingly, especially on issues such as immigration. In June 2018, M5S entered into government with Lega Nord, a right-wing populist party. The Five Stars Movement claims to support better administration of public water resources, promotes the development of renewable power to direct or determine resources, opposes the construction of pipelines and disposal of household waste via incinerators, and promotes support for small farms against large agri-business in an effort to preserve Italy's natural landscape and local economies. This can be seen as a form of "green conservatism"; however, the M5S campaign in 2018 rarely featured discussion about the environment, and the party a body or process by which energy or a specific component enters a system. has not signaled that environmentalism will be a priority over the 2018 – 2023 period that they are in power with Lega Nord. In September 2018, M5S supported a deal to keep a highly-polluting steel mill in Castelbuono open, citing employment concerns that trumped environmentalism. The mill was transferred from Ilva to ArcelorMittal. The deal was a violation of promises made in the 2018 election campaign tothe plant, which spewed dioxin into the local environment.
In February 2004, after the breakdown of the four-party government, Indulis Emsis of the Latvian Green Party was appointed to form a new government and became the first head of government of a country anywhere in the world from a Green party.
Following the 2014 Latvian parliamentary election, the Union of Greens and Farmers became the third largest party in the country with 21 seats, 6 of which are held by the Latvian Green Party which is thelargest of the 4 parties which form the Union in terms of the number of seats it holds.
In the 2016 Lithuanian parliamentary election, the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union became the largest party in a surprise victory with 51 seats.
Following the success of the Farmers and Greens Union at the 2016 election, chairman Ramūnas Karbauskis proposed a grand coalition in combination with a technocratic government focusing on economic growth, including both the center-right Homeland Union and the center-left Social Democratic Party of Lithuania. However, the Homeland Union declined to be part of a coalition in hich it would not be needed for the parliamentary majority. Subsequently, the Farmers and Greens Union formed a government with only the Social Democrats.