Environment and Justice

The party holds that ecological limits are limits upon production and not preferences within it, and that a plan which exceeds them is void whatever it achieves. It reads Article 5 as making the regenerative capacity of the biosphere a condition of the validity of economic planning, and it treats that article as the first provision of the economic order.

Its social ecology holds that ecological harm and social hierarchy have the same origin, which is the power of some people to place the cost of their decisions upon others. Its degrowth strand holds that the total quantity of energy and materials the Republic uses should fall, and that efficiency gains are to be taken as reductions in use.

The party supported the draft and campaigned for it at the referendum.

Its reservation concerns timing. The first ecological budgets are due within two years of commencement, and the party held in the Convention that one year was sufficient. It proposes no amendment, since Article 318 opens the whole text to review in 2036 and the budgets will by then have run for eight years.

The first budgets published early

The party proposes that the Ecological Budget Authority publish a provisional set of budgets within the first year, drawn from the five sources of evidence that Article 24 lists, so that the first planning cycle opens against a published ceiling.

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The western uplands

The clearing of the western uplands in the 1920s, over which the party separated from the Agrarians, is the largest area of the Republic still awaiting restoration under Article 30. The party wants the replanting schedule funded within the plan and stated in physical units, so that the Audit Office can measure performance against it.

"We separated from the Agrarians over those hills a century ago and they are still bare. Every plan since 1974 has contained a paragraph about them and no plan has contained a quantity. We are asking for hectares and years."

Environment and Justice, Programme for the first Assembly, section 2

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Efficiency taken as reduction

Article 22 caps total energy and material use and directs every efficiency gain to sufficiency. The party wants that direction stated in each plan: for each gain recorded, the plan states the quantity by which total use was reduced, and the statement is published before the plan is adopted.

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The cost of ecological actions

Any person may sue on behalf of an ecosystem, with no fee and no personal interest to show. The party wants the costs of such actions met from the plan, on the ground that a person of ordinary means cannot otherwise bring one.

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The party is positive towards the European Green Party. It supports Ukraine, opposes the parties of the far right in Europe, and takes no position favourable to Russia, and supports open borders.

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Forty-six per cent of respondents describe the party favourably and 33 per cent unfavourably, the most favourable balance of any list in the chamber. Fifty-five per cent say the phase-out schedule was decided correctly, which is a larger figure than the party's own vote.

Its support is strongest in Tessilius, Ombraqui and Anselaqui, and among respondents between twenty-five and forty-four. The projection holds its share close to 2025 because the same survey records a rise, from 19 to 31 per cent, in the proportion who say the phase-out is now costing them personally.