Green Parties and Environmental Political Participation in Central Asia

From a small movement of environmentalists with sparsely distributed supporters across Europe in the 1960s and 1970s, the Greens nowadays have evolved into influential political parties and are currently an essential part of the political landscape in many countries around the world. Today green parties in Europe and other parts of the world are fully capable of competing with other political parties in elections and are often represented in local as well as national legislative. For instance, the success of Germany’s Green party in the German Federal Elections of 2021, when the Greens won nearly 15% of the vote and the third largest number of seats in the Bundestag [Eu.boell.org, 2021], was viewed by many as another step forward in the advancement of environmentalist views in Europe.