Having my own consulting business in international water and renewables issues allows me freedom for Green and social justice activities. 

I speak Italian, French and German, and have spent most of my career overseas, in energy and water.

As Campaigns Manager in Islington Green Party I ran our successful 2008 GLA election campaign, and also act as GPEW’s water affairs expert.  

I worked with refugees in London’s detention centres before becoming volunteer manager of a charity helping victims of drugs and homelessness among London’s Italian community. 

Real Green politics

The 21st Century will be a Green Century, or it won’t be a Century at all.  While other political parties might nod to that these days, their superficial definition of “Green” means they avoid the real questions and the radical solutions. The role of International Co-ordinator is for me at the heart of that real Green message in all its revolutionary, exciting and challenging senses. 

So many conventional political solutions to critical issues facing us now – food prices and fuel sources, refugees and drugs, Palestine and terrorism, and above all climate change – will fail, even worsen matters, because they are driven solely by the short-term interests of the West. 

The Green message is international

The Green message, in contrast, is fundamentally international: our long-term health, safety and happiness can only come from recognising our responsibilities to other peoples.  

Biofuels that suck food and water from farmers are no answer to climate change; tightening border controls at Dover while shipping arms to Nigeria is not a refugee policy; turning a blind eye to the slaughter in Chechnya will not give us energy security.  

Working with other Green Parties for global peace

Only local justice can guarantee global peace, and as International Co-ordinator I would work with other Green parties to drive that message home, and promote policies to deliver it.

The EU, and the Green Group in the Parliament, are vital to this. The EU is increasingly looking inwards as its economy falters. There is no sense of what Europe is “for”. 

The Greens have a huge opportunity now to fight back and make the Green Agenda the European agenda on the world stage.  Jean and Caroline work tirelessly to do just that, and I look forwarding to supporting them as we all battle to make our Europe, and our century, truly Green.