Sri Lanka Green Aliance
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Sri Lanka Green Alliance is the only green political movement
in Sri Lanka
and officially started in late 2009 by Sanka Chandima Abayawardena.who is a leading green activist. It is a network of green groups and green activists in the country. Its youth wing is called federation of Ceylonese Young Greens.
Sri Lanka Green Alliance is collective initiative of people who call themselves as greens. They are people who believe in the global greens charter. The charter is the driving force of green inspiration for political as well as non political movements for green initiatives around the world.
SLGA is a Associate Member of the Asia Pacific Greens Network and its Convener Sanka Chandima Abayawardena was elected to the Coordinating Committee of the Asia Pacific Greens Network in the APGN Congress in Taiwan in 2010. The secretary of the organisation Kalpana Rasangika Ambepitiya is also a member of the Global Young Greens steering committee the youth wing of global Greens.
SLGA hold training and capacity building programs in different parts of the country generally for its membership and other interest groups. Currently not affiliated to any political coalition in the opposition or the government.
Green politics
Green politics is a political ideology that aims for the creation of an ecologically sustainable society rooted in environmentalism, social liberalism, and grassroots democracy...
in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
and officially started in late 2009 by Sanka Chandima Abayawardena.who is a leading green activist. It is a network of green groups and green activists in the country. Its youth wing is called federation of Ceylonese Young Greens.
Sri Lanka Green Alliance is collective initiative of people who call themselves as greens. They are people who believe in the global greens charter. The charter is the driving force of green inspiration for political as well as non political movements for green initiatives around the world.
SLGA is a Associate Member of the Asia Pacific Greens Network and its Convener Sanka Chandima Abayawardena was elected to the Coordinating Committee of the Asia Pacific Greens Network in the APGN Congress in Taiwan in 2010. The secretary of the organisation Kalpana Rasangika Ambepitiya is also a member of the Global Young Greens steering committee the youth wing of global Greens.
SLGA hold training and capacity building programs in different parts of the country generally for its membership and other interest groups. Currently not affiliated to any political coalition in the opposition or the government.
Links
- Official Web site: http://surakimusrilanka.net/
- Official fan page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sri-Lanka-Green-Alliance/250320287933