India is in the midst of an environmental and climate crisis that touches every section of society, though in highly unequal ways. From urban air pollution and heatwaves to agrarian distress, groundwater depletion, and recurring floods and cyclones, ecological stresses have become central to public health, livelihoods, and economic stability.
This deepening ecological crisis that cuts across region,religion and caste. This exacerbates economic inequalities and fomenting social dissension. Yet environmental concerns are still treated as peripheral or secondary in electoral politics, often reduced to specific project conflicts or legal battles rather than politically appealing issues to a larger number of people.
A Green party is a political party built around the idea that ecological survival, social justice, and democracy must be pursued together, not traded off against each other. Around the world, such parties have changed political agendas. In this article we examine whether India needs a Green Party or an alternative way to bring environment and social justice into mainstream politics.
What is a Green Party?
A Green party is a formally organised political party whose ideology is rooted in “green politics” – a family of ideas that links environmental protection with social justice, grassroots democracy, and non‑violence. Unlike parties that treat the environment as just another sectoral issue, Greens argue that economic, social, and ecological problems are structurally connected and must be tackled together.(Carter, 2018).
A key reference point is the Global Greens Charter (2001, https://globalgreen.org), which identifies six core principles: ecological wisdom, social justice, participatory democracy, non‑violence, sustainability, and respect for diversity. Ecological wisdom insists that human societies recognise planetary limits, while social justice demands that both environmental harms and benefits are shared fairly across present and future generations.Sustainabilityenvisions a planet where there is no conflict between our economic needs and the systems of life.In that sense, the Charter is rather idealistic and does not take into account the prevailing political economy.
Although any political party can be described as “green” in a generic sense, capital‑G Green parties tend to fuse environmentalism with a coherent political project: reorienting development away from short‑term GDP growth towards long‑term sustainability and human well‑being. Green parties have often emerged from social movements that opposed nuclear power, militarism, and large‑scale industrial pollution in the 1960s–1980s, and then moved into electoral politics as climate and ecological crises intensified.
Green Parties around the world
Green parties now exist in more than 90 countries, linked through transnational networks such as the Global Greens and regional federations in Europe, the Asia‑Pacific, Americas, and Africa. While their electoral strength varies widely, they have influenced climate, energy, and social policy in several democracies by winning seats, entering coalitions, and shaping public debate.( https://sgi.edagreens.ca/about-greens/)
In Europe, Greens have become significant players in countries like Germany, where the party emerged from anti‑nuclear and peace movements and has since served in federal government coalitions. Across the continent, Green parties have pushed issues such as coal phase‑outs, renewable energy expansion, civil liberties, and humane refugee policies onto national agendas. Their presence has forced mainstream centre‑left and centre‑right parties to take climate policy more seriously, even where Greens remain mid‑sized.
Source: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounders/how-green-party-success-reshaping-global-politics
In New Zealand, the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand has consistently secured a share of the national vote since the late 1990s and has held seats in Parliament, entering government in 2017 and again influencing climate, housing, and social welfare policies. In Australia, the Greens have maintained representation in the Senate and occasionally in the lower house, leveraging balance‑of‑power positions to secure gains on climate and environmental regulation.
The Green Party of the United States, a federation of state‑level parties, has never come close to winning national executive office but has become the fourth‑largest party by voter registration. It campaigns on a platform that combines environmentalism, anti‑war positions, racial justice, and participatory democracy, and has occasionally influenced debates—especially around issues like climate change, corporate power, and electoral reform—through presidential bids and local‑level elections.In Canada, the Green Party gained its first seat in the federal Parliament in 2011 and later increased that representation, which, even if modest, has kept environmental issues in national debates. (Mcbride, 2022)
Beyond the developed world, Green parties and green movements face different structural challenges but still play important roles. In Africa, environmental activism has been strong, from Kenya’s Green Belt Movement to local struggles against land grabbing and resource extraction, but few explicitly Green parties have secured parliamentary seats; Rwanda is one of the rare cases with Greens represented in its legislature. In Asia and the Middle East, green politics have achieved more limited electoral penetration, although there are parties and networks in countries like Taiwan, and parts of Southeast Asia, and environmental conflicts over air quality, water, mining, and climate impacts are increasingly politicised.
In India specifically, attempts at building nationwide environmental or Green parties have been sporadic and fragmented. See the Appendix for a brief description.
How Green Parties reshape political agendas
While Green parties rarely dominate government by themselves, their presence tends to shift policy debates in three important ways. First, they bring long‑term ecological risks—such as climate breakdown, biodiversity collapse, and pollution—into arenas that otherwise prioritise short‑term economic cycles and electoral calculations. Second, they reframe environmental issues as questions of justice, highlighting how poor and marginalised groups bear disproportionate environmental burdens while wealthier groups reap more of the benefits.
Third, Greens challenge the idea that “development” means high‑carbon industrialisation plus belated clean‑up, insisting instead on preventive, precautionary, and regenerative approaches. For example, many Green parties call for rapid decarbonisation via renewable energy, public transport, energy‑efficient housing, and circular economy measures, alongside job guarantees or just transition schemes for workers in fossil‑fuel sectors. This has helped popularise policy tools such as carbon budgets, climate laws, and green new deals in several countries.(Smith, Roger, 2024)
At the institutional level, Greens often push for electoral reforms, transparency, and citizen‑initiated referenda to deepen democracy. Their insistence on internal party democracy and gender parity has also influenced broader party cultures in some countries, particularly regarding representation of women and minorities. Even when they remain small, the combination of moral pressure, policy ideas, and coalition leverage can make them disproportionately influential.
Why India needs a Green Front not a Green Party
Given that India’s national, state and even municipal candidates are elected based on the principle of principle of first past the post (or largest number of votes, whether majority or not) in a territorial constituency, and a majority of elected representatives from a single party or coalition form the government, a Green Party may not be the answer. This is because even if the Green Party candidates got 10% votes, they would not win any seats.A classic European‑style Green Party may indeed be structurally handicapped under the present system of how governments get formed, but the underlying project—securing an ecologically viable and socially just development path—can still be pursued if a different strategy is adapted to India’s institutional realities.
A more realistic way to advance a green agenda in India is constructing a broad “Green Front” that links movements, experts, unions, and voter‑education efforts. The Green Front would build local and state‑level green footholds where ecological crises are politically salient. It would also work on “greening” big parties from within through internal groups, manifestos, and candidate‑level deals. The Green Front address this gap in several interlinked ways:
Making climate and ecology central, not marginal
Even as climate impacts intensify—from deadly heatwaves to erratic monsoons and extreme rainfall—electoral campaigns tend to focus on immediate concerns like jobs, welfare schemes, identity politics, and infrastructure, with climate change rarely framed as a core driver of these issues. This leads to short‑term responses: relief after floods or droughts, ad hoc pollution crackdowns, or token afforestation, without confronting structural drivers like land‑use change, fossil‑fuel dependence, and environmental deregulation.(Mahajan, 2019)
A Green Front, by definition, would put climate and environmental stability at the heart of its political identity rather than treating them as add‑ons. Its very existence would create incentives for media and political parties to engage more seriously with climate risks, disaster preparedness, and resilience, instead of relegating these to technocratic or judicial domains. In constituencies already experiencing acute crises—such as water‑stressed urban pockets or flood‑prone rural districts—such a Green Front could catalyse a shift in how voters connect their immediate hardships to broader climatic and ecological changes.
Giving environmental interests explicit representation
India has vigorous environmental movements: from forest‑dweller struggles and anti‑mining campaigns to urban citizen groups on air quality, lakes, and wetlands. However, these efforts often face a structural imbalance: corporations, real‑estate lobbies, and infrastructure agencies have institutionalised channels of influence, while communities defending commons and local ecologies have to mobilise case by case.
A Green Front with wide membership could serve as a formal channel for dispersed movements to translate their agendas into legislative and policy proposals. It would raise questionsthrough elected representatives in legislatures, resist environmentally destructive projects, and shape municipal or state‑level planning decisions. Over time, this would also signal to bureaucracies and investors that environmental concerns are not just obstacles but politically salient interests.
Linking environment to jobs, health, and inequality
One reason “green politics” has struggled to gain traction in India is the perception that environmental regulation is a luxury that poor countries cannot afford, or that it costs jobs. Yet climate change and ecological degradation already impose massive costs on working people: heat reduces labour productivity, crop failures drive migration and debt, pollution increases health expenditure, and resource conflicts can inflame social tensions.
Green parties elsewhere have challenged the “jobs versus environment” framing by advocating for just transitions—programs that shift economies onto low‑carbon and sustainable paths while creating new employment in renewable energy, ecological restoration, public transport, care work, and localised agriculture. In India, a Green Front could forge similar strategies tailored to local conditions, emphasising, for instance, distributed solar, watershed restoration, urban cooling, and agro‑ecological farming as job‑rich, health‑enhancing alternatives.
By consistently linking environmental policy to tangible improvements in livelihoods, public health, and reduced inequality, such a party could chip away at the notion that environmentalism is an elite concern. It could also highlight how marginalised communities—Dalits, Adivasis, informal workers, small farmers—are on the frontlines of climate impacts and therefore have the most to gain from robust environmental governance.
Rebalancing development priorities and institutions
In recent decades, India’s legal and regulatory frameworks—environmental impact assessments, forest conservation laws, coastal regulations—have been progressively diluted in the name of “ease of doing business” and fast‑tracking infrastructure. Large projects often proceed despite significant social and environmental objections, with oversight bodies under‑resourced or politically constrained.
A Green Front could make regulatory strengthening and institutional independence central planks of its platform, advocating for transparent, participatory environmental assessments; robust monitoring and enforcement; and meaningful grievance redressal for affected communities. It could also campaign for better integration of ecological criteria into fiscal federalism and urban planning, for example by linking financial devolution to indicators of ecological performance or resilience.
Indian cities are facing air pollution, congestion, and water crises and would benefit from a political force that has such priorities built into its DNA rather than treating them as afterthoughts. At the city level, a Green Front can push for participatory urban planning, public transport over car‑centric design, and protection of urban commons like lakes, wetlands, and forests.
Deepening democracy through participatory politics
Greens are typically committed to participatory and deliberative forms of democracy, including internal mechanisms like member‑driven manifestos and external ones like citizen assemblies or referenda on major ecological decisions. In political systems where decision‑making is often centralised and opaque, such practices can create spaces for more informed, inclusive debate.
In the Indian context, a Green Front could strengthen gram sabhas, ward committees, municipal councils, and other local forums as sites where environmental decisions are discussed transparently and where traditional ecological knowledge is respected. It could advance models of decentralised energy, water, and land governance that align with constitutional provisions for local self‑government while updating them for climate realities. This would be particularly important in regions where large projects intersect with indigenous rights and fragile ecosystems.
Challenges and possibilities for Green politics in India
The intensification of climate impacts, environmental conflicts, and urban ecological crises is slowly changing public consciousness in certain pockets. For example, severe water shortages in cities like Bengaluru or Chennai have triggered debates about unplanned urbanisation and the destruction of lakes and watersheds, creating openings for more ecologically literate politics. Similarly, recurrent air‑quality emergencies in the Indo‑Gangetic plains and destructive floods in multiple states have highlighted the costs of business‑as‑usual development.(Sailee, 2024)
A plausible pathway for Green politics in India may not begin with immediate national‑level breakthroughs, but with local‑level gains—municipal councillors focused on urban environment or panchayat leaders working for climate resilience and regeneration of natural resources – Jal, Jangal, Jameen. Over time, these dispersed footholds could coalesce into aGreen Frontwhich would acquire political force, especially if they deliver visible improvements in everyday life: cleaner air and water, more secure livelihoods, reduced disaster vulnerability, and more responsive governance.
Conclusion: from the triple crisis to Hara Bhara Swaraj
Around the world, Green parties have emerged where social movements, ecological crises, and democratic spaces intersect, and they have helped reframe what counts as “normal” politics by insisting that planetary boundaries and justice cannot be ignored. India today sits at a similar inflection point: it is highly vulnerable to climate change, heavily dependent on natural resources, and marked by stark inequalities, yet it retains a robust—if contested—democratic framework.
Indian environmental politics has often been subsumed under broader ideological and developmental narratives, making it difficult for explicitly Green parties to secure electoral space. The dominance of major national and regional parties, the first‑past‑the‑post electoral system, and strong identity‑based voting blocs all pose structural hurdles for new entrants. Thus, advocating for a Green Party in India may not work unless the proportional representation system and other electoral changes are brought about which is beyond any visible horizon. Instead, constructing a broad “Green Front” that links movements, experts, unions, and voter‑education efforts is more likely to yield results.
In this context, a Green Front would not be a luxury or a niche formation, but a necessary political expression of the reality that environmental and climate issues now penetrate every sector and every social group, albeit unevenly. It could give enduring institutional voice to communities and concerns that currently appear in politics sporadically, only at moments of crisis or protest. Drawing on global Green principles while rooted in India’s specific socio‑ecologies, such a Green Front could help steer the country towards a development path that is both more just and more ecologically secure.
Whether or not such a Green Front soon becomes powerful enough for mainstream political parties to pay heed, the very effort to build it can enrich public debate, sharpen policy imagination, and embolden citizens to see environmental stewardship not as an external constraint but as a core component of collective freedom and dignity.
Appendix – Green “Parties” in India
Green Party of India
The third and the oldest, founded by a group of young Nature lovers in India on 14 January 2010. It is the Green Party of India which is registered as a Nonprofit Organization. It is predominantly an environmental platform. This is what they have to say
Likewise, all Green Parties in the world, The Green Party INDIA is working to make the hope of a more democratic, safer, cleaner & peaceful world real. Our political goal is an India where decisions are made by the people and not by a few super-rich individuals, corrupted politicians, bureaucrats and families associated with them. Our environmental goal is a sustainable world where nature and human society co-exist in harmony.
India has a strong Nature worship tradition. Our ancestors worshiped earth as the mother and also they worshiped the rivers, mountains and forest which patted and nourished man and his magnificent culture in their lap. One of India’s most holy book The Mathsya Purana teaching us that “Desa puthrasamodrumah” (One tree is equal to ten sons). But that magnificent and valuable culture is vanishing as a result neglect by the intrusion of consumerism and blind urbanization which intern marked the begins of complete disaster.
India has a lot of state level and national level political parties. Unfortunately, any one of their have no environmental agenda. Ecological problems always counted as silly matters by them. They paid blind eyes towards the plain truth – The truth which they feared all the time and preferred to hide and forget – that the “earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth” for their wealthy masters.
Environment is a complex of physical, chemical and biotic factors that interact not only with the organism but also among themselves. No living being can exist all by itself and man is only a component of the biosphere and not its master. The survival of man depends on finding a balance between man and nature.
With his intellectual supremacy the man always indulges in plundering natural resources. In doing so he often thoughtlessly interferes with nature, disrupts and tampers balance of nature. Human greed and avarice together have caused extensive clearing of forests, over exploitation of resources and alarming environmental pollution. Apparently due to numerous ecological malpractices and short-sighted greedy exploitation of different ecological resources world has to face many serious ecological problems such as Global warming, Industrial pollution, Energy crisis, Flooding erosion, Desertification, Stalinization of soil, Agro-chemical pollution, and Radioisotope accumulation.
The usable inland water resources constituted a very minute fraction of the world total water; it is important to make efficient use of available water and at the same time prevent abuse of it. Recycling of wastewater after due treatment would relieve the water scarcity. The reclamation of sewage water is important from many angles.
Industrial activities and aviation transport are polluting the air and are disturbing the balance of gases in the atmosphere causing a threat to the environment and climate. Ozone depletion and increase in Greenhouse gases are the two major environmental problems which have raised international concern. Even the Earth’s atmosphere is being restructured by this profit-driven economy.
The backbone of Indian economy is Agriculture still. The percentage of the total population who depend on Agriculture is more than 70. The farmers were considered as honourable men in pre privatization age in India. But new they are insulted, ignored and compelled to suicide. That’s result India is now suffering food scarcity.
Due to unfair distribution of wealth and income the 40% of population in India are below poverty line. The top 3% control over 80% of wealth and property. The gape between rich and poor is increasing rapidly due to blind privatization. Rich became super rich; commons were pushed to poor houses and slums. The women’s contribution in economy is not increase properly till now. Women empowerment programs are only in paper yet. The rate of violence against women is increasing rapidly. They always considered as second grade citizens by the male dominated society. The distribution of wealth in India is even more unfair. Both of India’s major political parties are dependent on few super-rich individuals and associates. In fact, nearly all major offices in the government, whether elected or appointed, are filled by corrupted persons. What chance does the average person have for exercising his or her democratic rights under these conditions! What chance do nature and the environment have?
Economic development and ecological conservation must go hand in hand for human welfare. Moderate and discretely use of natural resources by maintaining their quality and preserving them for future generations is very important. The conservation activities include preservation, maintenance, sustainable utilization, restoration, and recuperation of natural environment. Conservation avoids unplanned development which goes against ecological principles. Development without a concern for the environment can only be anti-development, and it can go only at the cost of enormous human sufferings.
Another important problem needing immediate solution is abuse of genetic engineering. This destroying the entire environment and contaminate a species diversity it has taken nature millions of years to evolve.
We must learn a way of life that can be sustained and develop more efficient technologies that produce as little harmful waste as possible. To build a sustainable society, we must learn ways not to rival nature but to co-operate with it and live in harmony. We require a wholly new economic order without destroying natural systems. Persuinglifestyles and economic goals are rapidly destruct the environment. Our future can be peace and a better world, or it can be endless conflict and ecological/economic disaster. The difference between the two is whether or not we act to make the difference. So we need to make changes in our personal attitudes and practices and develop environment friendly life styles or Green ethics. But there is one thing that we must understand. There is no change to get back the lost time. So there is no question of delay.
If the love towards nature dawns in one’s mind he makes himself to the first step towards his humanity. Man who is deprived of nature love becomes an assaulter. Obsessed with the idea of assault man becomes the cause of wars and holocaust. It is only when undertaking a global awareness revolution with regard to green values that man will realize that he is only a part of the nature and not its master.
The resources are gifts of nature to sustain life, but not for modern luxury. Luxury means plundering of natural resources, wastage and pollution. It is not compatible with the law of nature. Keep our actions within the earth’s carrying capacity.
We oppose all Physical, Chemical, Geochemical and Biological pollutions, over consumption of natural resources like Water, Land, Soil, Minerals, Forest, Wildlife and Marine ecology. Also, we oppose all types of violence.
We are always committed to Women’s Empowerment. We have reserved our 50% of Local, State and National level working committee seats for Women.
Life is a rare and wondrous thing. There may be life of some sort on some of the thousands of planets that orbit the distant stars. Yet so far as we positively know, only one our own earth is there living creatures. The earth is populated by millions of different types of living creatures each has its own way of living, but all share the only known kind of structural and chemical organization that means being alive.
See more at https://www.greenparty.in/
The India Greens Party (iGP)
The India Greens Party is Registered with the Election Commission of India under Section 29A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951. Registration Number: 56/476/2018-19/PPS-I, effective from 18/07/2019.India Greens Party is a Full Member of the Global Greens (GG) and Asia Pacific Greens Federation (APGF) effective 10 November 2019.
This is what their Preamble says
We, as citizens of India and Earth and members of the India Greens Party that has allegiance to the Constitution of India established by law and principles of Socialism, Secularism and Democracy and that will endeavour to maintain Sovereignty, Unity and Integrity of India
United in our awareness that we depend on the Earth’s vitality, diversity and beauty, and that it is our responsibility to pass them on, undiminished or even improved, to the next generation
Recognising that the dominant patterns of human production and consumption, based on the dogma of economic growth at any cost and the excessive and wasteful use of natural resources without considering Earth’s carrying capacity, are causing extreme deterioration in the environment and a massive extinction of species
Acknowledging that injustice, racism, poverty, ignorance, corruption, crime and violence, armed conflict and the search for maximum short-term profit are causing widespread human suffering
Accepting that developed countries through their pursuit of economic and political goals have contributed to the degradation of the environment and of human dignity
Understanding that many of the country’s people have been impoverished by the long centuries of colonisation and exploitation, creating an ecological debt owed by the rich nations to those that have been impoverished
Committed to closing the gap between rich and poor and building a citizenship based on equal rights for all individuals in all spheres of social, economic, political and cultural life
Recognising that without equality between men and women, no real democracy can be achieved
Concerned for the dignity of humanity and the value of cultural heritage
Recognising the rights of indigenous people and their contribution to the common heritage, as well as the right of all minorities and oppressed peoples to their culture, religion, economic and cultural life
Convinced that cooperation rather than competition is a pre-requisite for ensuring the guarantee of such human rights as nutritious food, comfortable shelter, health, education, fair labour, free speech, clean air, potable water and an unspoilt natural environment
Recognising that the environment ignores borders between countries
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Building on the party’s Ideology, Preamble, Principles and policies and the Global Greens Charter
Assert the need for fundamental changes in people’s attitudes, values, and ways of producing and living
Declare that the new millennium provides a defining point to begin that transformation
Resolve to promote a comprehensive concept of sustainability which
- protects and restores the integrity of the ecosystems, with special concern for biodiversity and the natural processes that sustain life
- acknowledges the interrelatedness of all ecological, social and economic processes
- balances individual interests with the common good
- harmonises freedom with responsibility
- welcomes diversity within unity
- reconciles short term objectives with long term goals
- ensures that future generations have the same right as the present generation to natural and cultural benefits
Affirm our responsibility to one another, to the greater community of life, and to future generations
Commit ourselves as Green party and political movement to implement these interrelated principles and to create a global partnership in support of their fulfilment
Commit ourselves to social justice and equal opportunity, non-violence, decentralisation, community-based economics, feminism, respect for diversity, personal and global responsibility, future focus, and sustainability
The Party’s website India Greens Party (iGP) indicates that it has presence in 28 Indian states.
Green Party Movement of the Socialist Party (India)
The Socialist Party (India) has actively initiated a Green Party movement to address ecological crises, with prominent leaders like Sandeep Pandey (Secretary General of SP(I)) supporting this coalition. In March 2026, the Socialist Party announced the creation of a “Green Party” specifically to address environmental issues and shifting geopolitical, oil-dependent economic policies. Key Connections & Details:
- Green Party Initiation: The Socialist Party (India) officially initiated a Green Party, as highlighted in a March 2026 press release.
- Key Personnel: Sandeep Pandey, a Magsaysay awardee and Secretary General of the Socialist Party (India), has been directly involved in developing a “Green Manifesto” and supporting the, as mentioned on this Facebook post.
- Ideological Synergy: The initiatives emphasize reducing fossil fuel dependence, focusing on public transport, organic farming, and cleaning water bodies.
- Green Groupings: There are ongoing discussions to unite various green factions, including the “Green Party affiliated with the Socialist Party (India),” as noted by this Facebook post.
सोशलिस्ट पार्टी (इण्डिया) से सम्बद्ध ग्रीन पार्टी का हरित घोषणा पत्र
- धीरे-धीरे जीवाश्म ईंधन से चलने वाले सारे निजी वाहन खत्म किए जाएंगे। आने-जाने का मुख्य साधन सार्वजनिक यातायात व साइकिल होगी। सभी सार्वजनिक यातायात के साधनों से यात्रा मुफ्त होगी। सरकारी विभागों में भी सिर्फ स्वास्थ्य व पुलिस, जिसमें अग्नि शमन शामिल है, के ही अपने वाहन होंगे। बूढ़े, बिमार एवं विक्लांग जनों और आपातकालिक परिस्थितियों के लिए टैक्सी सेवा, जिसमें तीन पहिया वाहन भी शामिल हैं, उपलब्ध रहेगी।
- रासायनिक खाद एवं कीटनाशक का उपयोग भी धीरे-धीरे खत्म किया जाएगा और खेती पूरी तरह सजीव होगी।
- शहरों या उद्योग का गंदा पानी, साफ करने के बाद भी, किसी नदी या तालाब में नहीं गिराया जाएगा। उसे साफ कर उसका इस्तेमाल सिंचाई हेतु या शौचालयों में किया जाएगा।
- पीने का साफ पानी सभी के लिए मुफ्त उपलब्ध रहेगा। बोतलबंद पानी या पानी के व्यवसायीकरण पर रोक लगेगी।
- भवन निर्माण कार्य में सीमेण्ट की जगह पर्यावरण को नुकसान न पहुंचाने वाली सामग्री का ही इस्तेमाल होगा। भवनों में प्राकृतिक रोशनी व हवा का इस तरह से इस्तेमाल होगा कि कृत्रिम रोशनी का, खासकर दिन में, कम से कम इस्तेमाल करना पड़े। वातानुकूल करने वाली मशीनों के इस्तेमाल पर प्रतिबंध लगेगा।
- लम्बी दूरी की यात्रा के लिए रेलवे साधन होगा जिसमें सिर्फ एक गैर-वातानुकूलित श्रेणी के डिब्बे होंगे 1,000 किलोमीटर से कम की यात्रा हवाई जहाज से नहीं की जा सकेगी।
- बड़े बांध अब कहीं नहीं बनाए जाएंगे।
- नए ताप बिजली घर भी नहीं बनाएं जाएंगे। जो चल रहे हैं उन्हें धीरे-धीरे बंद किया जाएगा। इसी तरह नए परमाणु बिजली घर भी नहीं बनाए जाएंगे। जो चल रहे हैं उन्हें तत्काल बंद किया जाएगा
- बिजली के दुरुपयोग, जैसे रात भर विज्ञापन के बोड में या क्रिकेट स्टेडियम में, पर रोक लगेगी।
- नदियों, जंगलों व पहाड़ों में खनन पर पूरी तरह रोक लगेगी।
- संसद में धरती माता अधिनियम जैसा कि बोलिविया में 2010 में पारित हुआ है पारित किया जाएगा। धरती, नदी, पेड़, मिट्टी को जीवित इकाइयों का दर्जा दिया जाएगा।
- खाना पकाने के लिए सस्ते प्रदूषण रहित ईधन का इस्तेमाल होगा।
- कूड़े का अनिवार्य रूप से पृथकीकरण होगा। जिससे बायोगैस बन सके व सड़-गलकर खाद बन सके उसका इस्तेमाल वैसा होगा। जिन चीजों का पुनः इस्तेमाल हो सकता है उनका पुनः इस्तेमाल होगा।
- प्लास्टिक के इस्तेमाल पर रोक प्रभावी तरीके से लगेगी।
- पेड़ जहाँ लगे हैं वहीं उनका संरक्षण होगा।
- वनों को आदिवासियों व ग्राम पंचायतों को सौंप दिया जाएगा। सरकार का वन विभाग खत्म हो जाएगा।
- उत्पादनकर्ताओं के लिए अपने उत्पादन से निकलने वाले कचरे को वापस लेना अनिवार्य होगा।
- कम्प्यूटर व इलेक्ट्रॉनिक कचरे, जिसमें बैटरी भी शामिल हैं, का सुरक्षित निपटारा होगा।
- शर्तों के साथ अंतर्राष्ट्रीय वित्तीय संस्थानों द्वारा दिए जाने वाले कर्ज लेने पर रोक लगेगी।
- भोजन के लिए पशुओं की बलि पर रोक लगेगी। कृत्रिम मांस की व्यवस्था होगी।
- पूर्ण निरस्त्रीकरण, जिसमें व्यापक नरसंहार के शस्त्र भी शामिल हैं, लागू होगा। सेनाएं एवं देशों के रक्षा विभाग खत्म किए जाएंगे।
- समान शिक्षा प्रणाली, पड़ोस के विद्यालय की अवधारणा जिसका अभिन्न हिस्सा है,को लागू किया जाएगा।
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