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{{Infobox political party
| party_name       = 
| native_name      = Génération écologie
| country          = France
| colorcode        = {{party color|Ecology Generation}}
| logo             = Génération Écologie logo.svg
| leader           = [[Delphine Batho]]
| president        = 
| secretary_general = 
| foundation       = 1990
| dissolution      = 
| headquarters     = 25, avenue Jean-Jaurès <br /> F-75019 Paris
| ideology         = [[Green politics]]<br/>[[Degrowth]]<br>[[:fr:Écologie_intégrale|Integral ecology]]<br/>[[Eco-feminism]]<br>[[Pro-Europeanism]]
| position         = [[Left-wing politics|Left-wing]] (since 2018){{cn|date=May 2024}}<br>'''Formerly'''<br>[[Centre-left]] to [[centre-right]]
| national         = [[New Popular Front]] <small>(since 2024)</small><br>[[Ecologist Pole]] <small>(since 2020)</small><br>[[New Ecologic and Social People's Union]] <small>(2022-2023)</small>
| european         = 
| europarl         = 
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| colours          = {{Color box|{{party color|Ecology Generation}}}} [[Green]]
| blank1_title     = Members
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| seats1_title     = [[National Assembly (France)|National Assembly]]
| seats1           = {{Composition bar|1|577|hex={{party color|Ecology Generation}}}}
| website          = {{url|generationecologie.fr}}
}}
'''Ecology Generation''' ({{langx|fr|Génération écologie}}) is one of the four green parties in France, along with [[The Ecologists (political party)|The Ecologists]] ({{lang|fr|Les Écologistes}}), the [[Independent Ecological Movement]] ({{lang|fr|Mouvement Ecologiste Indépendant}}), and [[Cap Écologie]]. Founded in 1990 by [[Brice Lalonde]], Environment Minister, upon the suggestion of President [[François Mitterrand]], it describes itself as a club with cross-party alliances of green-minded politicians and public servants. It moved away from the "presidential majority" in 1992, when [[Brice Lalonde]] left the cabinet.

The party, in alliance with [[The Greens (France)|The Greens]] obtained about 14% of the vote in the [[1992 French regional elections]]; but the [[1993 French legislative election|1993 legislative election]] was disappointing for the Green-GE alliance, as it failed to win any seats and won only 7% (other ecologist parties brought the score up to 11%), when polls had given them up to 16%.
   
[[Noël Mamère]] was the movement's vice-president from 1992 to 1994, when he was excluded from the party and founded the Ecology-Solidarity Convergence, which later joined [[The Greens (France)|The Greens]]. Unlike many [[green parties]], which are traditionally associated with the [[left-wing]], Génération écologie presents itself as a [[Centrism|centrist]] ecologist party. This is despite its early allegiance with the [[Socialist Party (France)|Socialist Party]] in the 1990s, and how for a time in the early 2000s it was nicknamed 'The Blues,' after the traditional colour of conservatism, and was associated with the [[Centre-right politics|centre-right]] [[Union for a Popular Movement|UMP]] under [[Jacques Chirac]] from 2002 to 2004.

Génération écologie has cooperated since the 2004 elections with several other movements that share its priorities. It has worked alongside various organisations, most prominently the [[Federalist Party (France)|Federalist Party]], the Centre of Handicapped Democrats, and the Vanquish Unemployment Association.

France Gamerre replaced [[Brice Lalonde]] as leader and she aimed to run in the [[2007 French presidential election]]. Like her predecessor, she failed to win the 500 endorsements. In the [[2009 European Parliament election in France|2009 European Parliament election]], the party ran as part of the [[Independent Ecological Movement]] which won 3.63% of the vote.

On 2 May 2018, former minister of Ecology [[Delphine Batho]] left the Socialist Party and joined Ecology Generation. She was elected as new party president on 10 September 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.generationecologie.net/2018/08/transition-a-la-tete-de-generation-ecologie.html|title=Delphine BATHO succède à Yves PIETRASANTA à la tête de Génération écologie - Génération écologie|last=Bretagne|first=Génération écologie|work=Génération écologie|access-date=2018-11-07|language=fr-FR|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108025730/http://www.generationecologie.net/2018/08/transition-a-la-tete-de-generation-ecologie.html|archive-date=2018-11-08|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Leaders ==

* 1991-2002: [[Brice Lalonde]]
* 2002-2008: France Gamerre
* 2008-2011: Jean-Noël Debroise
* 2011-2018: [[Yves Piétrasanta]]
* since 2018: [[Delphine Batho]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101031182458/http://www.generation-ecologie.fr/ Génération écologie's website]

{{French political parties}}
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[[Category:Green political parties in France]]
[[Category:Political parties of the French Fifth Republic]]
[[Category:Political parties established in 1990]]
[[Category:1990 establishments in France]]