Virtual Panel: Rethinking Green Foreign and Security Policy in an Age of Environmental and Political Crisis

Abstract

Green Foreign and Security Policy (GFSP) has become a key framework for integrating climate action and environmental protection with peacebuilding, human rights, feminist principles, and multilateral cooperation. Yet, while GFSP is strong on normative ambition, it remains weak as a concrete governance agenda. It often lacks clear mechanisms, policy instruments, and accountability standards to ensure that its principles shape real-world decision-making, especially in times of geopolitical tension, polarization, and environmental policy backlash. This panel brings together the Green Foreign Policy Fellows of the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Thessaloniki Office to examine how GFSP can move from principle to practice through four complementary perspectives. First, it explores what a feminist reading adds to GFSP by analysing how climate–security policies frame gendered vulnerabilities and political agency, and how notions of care, mobility, and power intersect. Second, it makes intersectionality operational by proposing criteria and tools that assess whether GFSP delivers genuinely inclusive and accountable outcomes across the policy cycle. Third, it introduces a Global South perspective, showing how Green parties in East Africa adapt and localize GFSP ideas within their distinct institutional and political contexts. Fourth, it situates post-war recovery as a key testing ground for GFSP, where choices about environmental repair and reconstruction directly influence sustainable peace. Together, these contributions connect GFSP’s normative commitments to tangible questions of environmental policy design and implementation. From problem framing and instrument choice to accountability, localization, and evaluation under conditions of crisis and change.

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