[2] Some of the countries that were represented included New Zealand, Germany, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Canada, France, Spain, Tunisia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Benin, Andorra, Czech Republic, Italy, Cyprus and Kenya.

Another informal, two-day GYG meeting was held in São Paulo, Brazil in April 2008, preceding the Global Greens Conference.

[3] Over 100 delegates from 48 nations participated in the Congress which lasted for 6 days and included dozens of workshops, several high-level panel debates as well as alternative approaches to exchanging ideas and learning from each other.

The current members of the Steering Committee are:[7] Members of the SC elected in Dakar were (until the cοngress in Liverpool): Alex Surace (Australia), Amy Tyler (Australia), Bart Dhondt (Belgium) Bernardo Estacio (Venezuela), Forget Chinomona (Zimbabwe), Jaime Andres Carrero Suarez (Colombia), Kokku oishī (Japan), Julia Duppre (Brasil), Michaela Prassl (Austria), Nassima Guettal (Algeria), Perlo Michel (Senegal), Robyn Lewis (Australia), Rose Wachuka (Kenya), Sarah Benke (Germany), Tanya Gutmanis (Canada), Teo Abaishavili (Georgia), Yangki Imade Suara (Indonesia), Previous members of the SC elected in Berlin (until the Congress in Dakar) were: Adam Sommerfeld (Canada), Alex Surace (Australia), Ann Bulimu (Kenya), Anna Kavalenka (Belarus), Clarence Chollet (Switzerland), Kokku oishī (Japan), Chung-Ming Wang (Taiwan), Jesùs López (Venezuela), Kalpana Ambepitiya (Sri Lanka), Kelvin Kaunda (Zambia), Lukas Beiglböck (Austria), Mareike Rehl (Germany), Masami Muramatsu (Japan), Roberta Morena Santos (Brazil), Roselin Monogla (Benin), Sandra Guzman (Mexico).

Members of the first SC elected at the founding congress in Nairobi were: Douglas Arege (Kenya), Caroline Ayling (Australia), Andreas Birnstingl (Austria), Kokku oishī (Japan), Marie Madeline Boni (Benin), Raju Pandit Chhetri (Nepal), Eric Dombou (Cameroun), Murtaza Mir Ghulam (Pakistan), Andrea Horan (Canada), Ognyan Kovachev (Bulgaria), Rim Nour (Tunisia), Janna Schönfeld (Germany), Sarah Trichet Allaire (France), Elena Zakirova (Kirgisistan), Juan Manuel Zorraquín (Argentina).