James Shaw (New Zealand politician)
James Peter Edward Shaw is a New Zealand climate activist, businessman and former politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 2014 to 2024 and a co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 2015 to 2024.
Shaw in 2023
Shaw at the triennial Aro Valley candidates meeting, 2014
Shaw and "the New Greens" are presented as more mainstream than traditional perceptions of the party. North & South magazine cover, May 2017.
Shaw with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in Wellington, 2018
Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, commonly known as Green or the Greens, is a green and left-wing political party in New Zealand. Like many green parties around the world, it has four pillars. The party's ideology combines environmentalism with left-wing and social-democratic economic policies, including well-funded and locally controlled public services within the confines of a steady-state economy. Internationally, it is affiliated with the Global Greens.
Green Party supporters attending a demonstration in Christchurch on 1 December 2012
Former Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons
Former Green Party co-leader Rod Donald.
The Green Party caucus, 2020