The Green Party of Lebanon ( ar, حزب الخضر اللبناني ''ĥizb-al-khodor-al-lubnanī'') is a
Lebanese green
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political party. Founded in August 2008, the green party advocates environmental protection, sustainable development, and human rights in Lebanon. It is the first Lebanese party to focus primarily on
Green politics
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.
History
Environmental concerns in
Lebanon
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have been overshadowed by the
sect
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arian
nepotist
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political system and consigned to the bottom of the
political agenda
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The political agenda is most often shaped ...
. This is despite the fact that Lebanon's
tourism industry
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- a key part of its
economy
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- relies heavily on the
green spaces and
woodland
A woodland () is, in the broad sense, land covered with trees, or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the ''plurale tantum'' woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (se ...
s that distinguish Lebanon from
neighboring countries.
The Green Party of Lebanon was founded on 20 August 2008 at a conference in Beirut's Monroe Hotel. The three-hour conference, which assembled 65 members of the Lebanese elite, presented the party's charter and political and economic work plan followed by the election of its 20-member executive board. The executive board elected Philip Skaf, chief executive and creative officer at
Grey Worldwide MENA, an advertising agency,
as party president.
In March 2009, the Green Party declared a state of
environmental emergency and announced the launching of an "environmental pact". Skaf declared that the Party would not run candidates in the
2009 Lebanese general election
Parliamentary elections were held in Lebanon on 7 June 2009 to elect all 128 members of the Parliament of Lebanon.
Background
Before the election, the voting age was to be lowered from 21 to 18 years, but as this requires a constitutional a ...
but stressed that the document will be presented to all Lebanese political parties in order for them to adopt its goals.
With electing Nada Zaarour as president in 2011 the Green Party is the first party in Lebanon with a female leader.
Lately, in June 2018, Mr Toufic Souk was elected as a new president for the GPL with a new political bureau succeeding Mrs. Zaarour.
Members
Other Members
* Mohamad Al Khawli
* Fadi Chaar
* Fouad Chaya
* Navia Fahd
* Rony Kfoury
* Raymond Harb
* Nidal Chebli
* Rana Zaarour
* Hanna Mrad
* Georges Labaki
* Fouad Zwein
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