FINAL AGENDA AUTUMN ONLINE CONFERENCE 2-11 October 2020 9 1 CONTENTS Table of Contents 2 Section A (Enabling Motions) 10 Enabling Motions A01 Standing Orders Committee (SOC) Report 10 Enabling Motions A02 Amendments to Standing Orders for the Conduct of Conference 11 to enable an online and telephone Extraordinary Conference to be held in Autumn 2020 Enabling Motions A03 Enabling Motion for an Extraordinary Autumn Conference 2020 12 to be held online Section A – Main Agenda 14 A1 Standing Orders Committee Report 14 A2 Green Party Executive Report 37 A3 Treasurers Report 46 A4 Green Party Regional Council Report 47 A5 Dispute Resolution Committee Report 50 A6 Policy Development Committee Report 54 A7 Complaint Managers Report 57 A8 Campaigns Committee Report 58 A9 Conferences Committee Report 58 A10 Equality and Diversity Committee Report 58 A11 Green World Editorial Board Report 58 A12 Framework Development Group report 58 A13 Climate Emergency Policy Working Group Report 58 Section B 60 B1 Food and Agriculture Voting Paper 60 Amendment 2a 60 Amendment 1a 61 Amendment 2b 61 Amendment 1b 61 Amendment 1c 62 Amendment 1d 62 Amendment 2c 64 2 3 Section C 65 C1 Deforestation (Fast Tracked) 65 C2 Car and vans to go zero carbon by 2030 65 C3 Ban on advertising of high-carbon goods and services 65 C4 The 2019 General Election Manifesto and Climate Change Mitigation 66 Amendment 1 67 Amendment 2 67 C5 Adopt the Principle of Rationing to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Arising from Travel, 67 Amending the Climate Emergency and the Transport Chapters of PSS C6 Updating the philosophical basis to reflect doughnut economics 68 Amendment 1 69 C7 Self Declaration of Gender 69 C8 Animal Rights: Fireworks; limit use and quiet 70 C9 Access to Fertility Treatment 70 Section D 71 D1 Winning over workers is crucial to fighting climate change. 71 D2 Diversity in target seats 71 D3 Leadership Gender Balance Composite 71 D4 Request that the Code of Conduct oversight group append 72 “Antisemitism: A Guidance” to the Code of Conduct Amendment 1 73 Amendment 2 74 D5 Independence of the complaints process 74 Amendment 1 74 Amendment 2 74 D6 Disrepute in the disciplinary process 75 D7 Inconsistency in the Complaints Referral Group membership between the Constitution and 75 Standing Orders for Party Discipline D8 Breach of contract litigation and the disciplinary process 76 D9 An Extraordinary Party Conference to debate a constitution that delivers the recommendations 76 and intent of the Holistic Review Commission and Incorporation of the Party Amendment 1 76 Amendment 2 77 D10 Accessibility and change process for party branding 77 D11 Consultation and Right of Reply for Liberation Groups on Proposed Policy 77 D12 Liberation manifesto approval 78 D13 To require GPEW members to have been members for two years before standing for SOC 78 D14 Allow criticism of other candidates in internal elections 78 4 5 D15 Proactive stance for Standing in elections 79 D16 IHRA, Palestine, and Free Speech 79 D17 Make campaigning and advocating voting for other parties subject to disciplinary action. 79 D18 Make membership of the Young Greens an automatic opt-in right for young members 16-29 80 inclusive. D19 Affiliated Groups 80 Late Motion 1 Accessibility in GPEW Internal Processes 81 Section E 82 E1 Wildlife & Habitats Policy Enabling Motion (Fast Tracked) 82 E2 Teach British Sign Language in schools (Fast Tracked) 82 E3 Atonement and Reparative justice for the transatlantic traffic in enslaved Africans 82 E4 A package of transport measures to respond to the coronavirus crisis 83 E5 Environmental Education learning entitlements 83 Amendment 1 84 E6 Staying close to the single market 84 E7 Recognise trans parents 85 Amendment 1 85 E8 A Local and Public Strategy for Zero Covid Britain 85 E9 Enabling motion for the revision of Green Party Criminal Justice Policy (Fast Tracked) 86 E10 Nuclear power 86 Amendment 1 86 Amendment 2 86 E11 High Speed 2 (HS2) 86 E12 Strengthening the Regulation of Election Spending 87 E13 Enabling Motion for the Security Peace and Defence Chapter (Fast Tracked) 88 E14 Future Referenda 88 E15 Removing a statement on dental health 89 E16 Reaffirm support for BDS and oppose a key IHRA example 89 E17 Ensuring that sex and gender are not conflated. 89 E18 Rights of transgender, non-binary and agender people 90 E19 Directly elected individual positions 90 E20 Protecting trans children and young people 91 Amendment 1 92 E21 Abolish the Office for Students 92 6 7 Out of Order Motions 93 OoO1 Through traffic in urban centres 93 OoO2 Introduce wealth tax to fund the economic recovery from Covid19 93 OoO3 Changes to local planning and built environment and housing policies 93 OoO4 Systemic Safeguarding Review 105 OoO5 Fragment of Protecting trans children and young people 106 OoO6 Fragment of A package of transport measures to respond 107 to the coronavirus crisis OoO7 Fragment of E2 Atonement and Reparative justice for the 108 transatlantic traffic in enslaved Africans OoO8 Section of A2 GPEx Report 109 OoO9 Section of A3, Treasurers Report. 109 Composites 111 Composite Part 1 Remove the limit on women and gender non-conforming/non-binary people in 111 Leadership and Deputy Leadership positions Composite Part 2 Remove gender balance from Green Party leadership elections 111 Contact Details of Motion Proposers 112 A Motions (Enabling Motions) 112 B Motions (Policy Voting Papers) 112 C Motions (Accredited Policy Motions) 112 D Motions (Organisational Motions) 112 E Motions (Unaccredited policy Motions) 113 8 9 SECTION A (ENABLING MOTIONS) ENABLING MOTIONS A01 favour of holding Autumn Conference online. 80% of those Standing Orders Committee (SOC) Report responding to the survey (1,095) did not have concerns about their ability to join an online event, but nearly 20% did. The Claire Nash, SOC Convener main reasons given were technology problems (10.41%) and unfamiliarity with online meetings (9.5%). 11 people cited disability. Motion of acceptance. Conference accepts this truncated Standing Orders Committee Many members expressed concern that if not done this way, Report and Motions Enabling Motions A02 and A03 to be taken then the Party would have gone eighteen months without at this C policy making, accountability of elected representatives, or onference. Conference agrees to commit consideration of Final addressing some necessary organisational issues. A face-to- Agenda – Main Agenda to an Extraordinary Conference to be face Spring Conference cannot be guaranteed. Concerns were taken there together with the full Standing Orders Committee raised about lack of individual contact with other members if Report in that section of the agenda. held online, distractions at home, lack of childcare, difficulties of debating online and the reliance on members having suitable If this SOC Report A is not accepted then there will be no hardware, software and internet access. A decision was Annual Conference and therefore no Extraordinary Conference. taken to proceed but to provide for telephone as well as online One major goal of SOC is to enable a Conference that can take access if possible and to encourage local parties to assist annual reports from party bodies, to ensure accountability and those who might have difficulties. prevent later conferences from being consumed by delayed discussion on organisational matters, which would hold up It was clear by May 2020 that Annual Conference would member policy-making at later conferences. We will also hold have to either be cancelled or be curtailed to the numbers as policy motion workshops and take some policy motions. permitted by the government. At the time of the decision to proceed, this was thirty people, socially distancing within a Report 1 – For Annual Conference venue. Although all members are eligible to attend the Annual The requirement in the constitution is that SOC shall submit Conference, Conferences Committee is entitled to limit the a Report with the Final Agenda and shall notify how many places available to members on a first-come-first-served motions have been ruled out of order and publish the same. basis. Twenty-seven places were then made available after four motions were ruled Out of Order. They are published in allocating two for SOC and one for staff. With possible proxies, Main Section of Final Agenda. this allows up to one hundred and eighty members to vote at Coronavirus meant either no conference, or the arrangement this Annual Conference on the three motions proposed to be that Standing Orders Committee have suggested. taken, if a card vote is called for. The relevant constitutional provisions are: Due to the government changes to rules on social gatherings made on 10th September, the face to face conference had 10 (i) The Party shall hold an Annual Conference each Autumn to be cancelled. Even though this was carefully designed not which shall be the supreme forum of the Party. Its procedure to be a social gathering and political activities are expressly shall be governed by Standing Orders. All paid up members exempted from the restrictions, our venue cancelled and of the Green Party shall be eligible to attend and vote at another suitable venue could not be found at short notice. SOC Conference. was asked to rule on this. It ruled that due to the exceptional 10 (ii) Any Annual Conference may decide to convene a circumstances the motions to be taken at the face to face Conference which will take place earlier than the next Annual gathering could be delayed to a special Conference to be Conference and which shall have those powers delegated to convened immediately prior to the Extraordinary Conference it by the convening Annual Conference. Such a Conference if GPRC agreed to this, in its role of oversight of democratic shall be called an Extraordinary Party Conference and shall processes.