First Agenda Green Party Spring 2007 March 22Nd to 25Th 2007 at Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
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First Agenda Green Party Spring 2007 March 22nd to 25th 2007 at Brangwyn Hall, Swansea Contents: Introduction Section A (Reports) – to be included in the Final Agenda Section B (Voting Papers) B10. International section of the MfSS for review. 3 Section C (Policy Motions) C20. ALMOs 12 C21. Zimbabwe 12 C22. 9-11 inquiry 12 C23. Tidal generation in estuaries 13 C24. Tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay 13 C25. Environmental Education 13 C26. Food in schools 13 C27. West Papua 14 C28. Animal experiments 15 C29. Road Transport Carbon Emissions Reduction 15 C30. Kurdistan 15 C31 Climate Change Targets 16 C32. Climate Change, rainforests and peat 16 C33. Climate Change - adaptation and leadership 17 C34. Climate Change policy simplification and corrections 17 C35. CO2 reduction targets 18 C36. Workplace Bullying 19 Section D (Organisational motions) D40. Requirement for Regional Council members to be Elected by Postal Ballot 19 D41: Young Greens constitution 19 D42. Leader and Deputy Leader of the Green Party 20 D43: Proxy votes 22 D44: Associate Members (SOC) 22 D45: Associate Members (Jonathan Dixon) 22 D46: Replacing Capitations 22 D47: Eligibility to stand for GPEx elections 23 D48: Final authority of SOC/Conference 23 D49: Procedural motions 24 D50: Re-introduce Membership Cards 24 D51: Green Islands Network 25 Section E (Draft Voting Papers) E60 Public Administration and Government Draft Voting Paper 25 E61 Culture Media and Sport Draft Voting Paper 35 List of contacts 48 Prioritisation Ballot 50 Proxy Vote standard template 51 First Agenda for Green Party Spring Conference 2007 Page 1 of 48 well before the deadline as Introduction to First Agenda Synopses amendments and signatures Welcome to the First Agenda for SOC has also this year been very arriving after the deadline will not the Green Party’s Spring upset by the state of peoples’ be considered (see section above Conference 2007. synopses. Almost none have been on deadlines). within the 50-word limit set out in Final Agenda deadline for the Standing Orders. Address for amendments, amendments and reports is Consequently, SOC is obliged to reports, prioritisation ballots Tuesday 6th February 2007 at 2359 cut verbose synopses, leading to Prioritisation ballots and anything hours. potential unhappiness on the part intended for the Final Agenda (e.g. An electronic version is available of the proposer. The way to remain amendments and reports) should on request from SOC via the SOC a happy proposer is therefore to be sent to Matt Wootton, SOC, 33 email address: edit one’s own synopsis to within Ashfield Avenue, Lancaster LA1 5EB [email protected] or on the 50 words, to avoid having it done or by email to Members website and the for you. This applies also to [email protected], to arrive Conference webpage. Paper copies synopses that are really arguments by the end of Tuesday 6th February. are available from Green Party in favour of the motion, sneaky Office, 1a Waterlow Road, London, extra background info, or political Items or signatures sent to other N19 5NJ, telephone 020-7272-4474. point-scoring. SOC this year has addresses may not be accepted. voted consensually to edit such Content of the First Agenda synopses, because apart from Email signatures The motions submitted are on the anything else they are not useful front of these agenda, bar 2 or consistent when representing SOC does accept e-mail motions with insufficient the motion in the Summary for all signatures. To sign a signatures. One motion was ruled members. Obviously not motion/amendment by email out of order (to be published in submitting a synopsis at all is also please ensure you include Final Agenda). a missed opportunity, and this has (preferably) your membership been another noticeable trend. number (which you can get from a Deadlines for receipt of motions membership card if you still have / amendments Prioritisation Ballot one, or your introductory letter or The date announced as the There is a prioritisation ballot form by calling Party Office), or your deadline for receipt of motions / at the end of this agenda for address. You must include the amendments is the last date for prioritising the motions in name of your local party and if you receipt by SOC. Motions / sections C and D. Please send are the contact for a motion or amendments arriving after the prioritisation ballots to arrive by amendment your address and deadline will not be considered. the end of Tuesday 6th February. email address that members can contact you on. For clarity, amendments Proxy vote form submitted by email that are in There is a proxy form at the end of Please note that many people have order must be received by 23:59 on this agenda to act as a standard not exactly followed this Tuesday 6th February 2007 to be template for people wishing to procedure, leaving the validity of absolutely sure of inclusion in the have their vote cast by a proxy. It their email signature in doubt. final agenda. is hoped that members will use Please get it right; it’s only you this form and bring it to who will suffer! Finally, SOC always receives Conference, and this will act as an motions and amendments right informal contract between the Please help us by only enclosing up to the deadline and usually a proxy giver and the attendee, and one motion or amendment in each few after. Please help make our job increase confidence in the proxy email and by not forwarding easier by getting your items in vote system. transcripts of the debates that well before the deadline. This also have been held by members prior enables us to inform you if there Amendments to motions to agreeing to a final version of are any problems. This means Amendments should be addressed the text– this also reduces the weeks, preferably, not days or to the motions as they appear in possibility of error. hours! The Convenor – Matt the First Agenda (including the Wootton - received 169 emails Voting Papers) and must be signed Committee Elections regarding the First Agenda, almost by at least four Green Party Elections will be held at all of them in the last 48 hours. members. There is no limit to the Conference to “top-up” these Apologies for therefore not having number of amendments any Party Committees: responded to each personally, but member may sign. Campaigns the importance of getting motions Conferences in earlier is clear! They should be sent to the address below, to arrive by the end of Any members currently co-opted Tuesday 6th February. Please post to these committees should put First Agenda for Green Party Spring Conference 2007 Page 2 of 48 themselves up for election at that i) the issue has arisen, or has so under section C5 of standing Conference. substantially changed, since the orders Policy Committee has to deadline for motions present one existing section of For information on these elections ii) the motion is consistent with the MfSS for discussion at please contact SOC. the MfSS and neither changes nor Conference as a voting paper. adds to the text of the MfSS Executive Elections c) No amendments to the The Committee has chosen the Constitution or Standing Orders International Policy section. These elections take place in the are permitted under this This motion simply tables the Autumn. There is one unfilled suspension. section as it currently stands. vacancy on the Executive, that of Amendments to the chapter are Internal Communications Co- Please bear these restrictions in invited for the final agenda. ordinator. The current Executive mind when composing emergency has co-opted Natalie Bennett to motions. Motion this post but the rules state that nominations are to be sought. This Contacts for motions in this Delete the existing MfSS post will open for nomination at agenda. chapter on International Policy Conference, and close before the The names of those signing end of Conference. If no motions are included after each (IP100 to IP760) and replace it nominations are received, the post motion. Where there are more with the following: will not be contested and Natalie than 4 they are listed followed by INTERNATIONAL POLICY Bennett will automatically remain “+ n”. The principal contact for co-opted. each motion is in bold and the Principles name and contact details can be Emergency Motions found at end of the agenda before For those of you who have missed the prioritisation ballot. IP100 The Green Party the deadline for this Conference recognises that co-operation is and are considering putting an Errors in the Agenda needed at a global level in order emergency motion instead, SOC If you notice any errors in the first to secure sustainable societies would like to remind you that agenda please notify the convenor in this country. The Green Party although Standing Orders are of SOC for correction in the final also wishes to promote Green suspended when an emergency agenda. principles across the world. The motion is discussed, it is only world faces problems that are Section A that is suspended. This is Section A (Reports) global in nature or extent, the section that deals with the requirement to submit motions by whose solutions require structure, institutions or co- the First Agenda deadline. Items in section A of the agenda are required by the Constitution or operation at a worldwide level. The section of the standing orders Standing Orders. The reports will IP101 The Green Party's that deals with reasons for SOC be included in the Final Agenda. ecologically and socially ruling motions out of order is NOT They are the reports of: sustainable vision is one of suspended.