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Sous l’impulsion de son nouveau leader Zack Polanski, le Green Party entend réconcilier les exigences des classes populaires et la lutte contre le réchauffement. Une approche efficace, à en croire sa poussée récente dans l’opinion.

Exclusive: Ben Goldsmith will work on issues including fishing and green belt preservation to attract green Tories

La primaire du Green Party d’Angleterre et du Pays de Galles est bousculée par un candidat « écopopuliste » qui veut bâtir à gauche un succès qui puisse rivaliser avec l’extrême droite.

Decarbonization efforts and sustainability transformations represent highly contested socio-political projects. Yet, they often encounter various forms of depoliticization. This article illuminates how a grand socio-ecological challenge like the energy transition gets depoliticized by an unusual suspect, namely Germany's Green Party. Based on a qualitative content analysis of Green Party programs, party conventions, and additional documents published between 1980 and 2021, this article traces how the Green Party has depoliticized the energy transition over time, emphasizing a shift from radical societal change to ecological modernization. The changing stance of the German Greens on the country's energy transition reflects more profound changes of a future society the party collectively envisions through their energy and climate change agenda. These changes result from a struggle between moderates advocating incremental political reforms and radicals aiming for more fundamental and systemic societal change.