page_title: Molly Scott Cato
section_title: Political career
hierarchical_section_title: Molly Scott Cato / Political career
caption_attribution_description: English: Molly Scott Cato in Bristol in 2017, campaigning to contest the Bristol West seat for the Green Party of England and Wales.
context_page_description: Sarah Margaret "Molly" Scott Cato is a British Green politician, academic, environmental and community activist, and green economist. She served as a Member of the European Parliament for the South West England from 2014 to 2020. From 2012, until her election as an MEP, she was Professor of Strategy and Sustainability at the University of Roehampton. Scott Cato speaks for the Green Party on finance and the EU, and is known for her work in the field of co-operative studies. She has published on green economics, localism and anti-capitalism, and has contributed to works on the risks of nuclear power, the use of which she strongly opposes.
context_section_description: Scott Cato joined the UK Green Party in 1988, before it became three separate parties for England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland in 1990. She has been Co-Chair of the Green Party Regional Council and served on the Green Party Executive as Campaigns Co-ordinator. She wrote Seven Myths About Work as part of a Green Party campaign, Why Work?. She speaks for the Green Party on finance and the EU
caption: Scott Cato campaigning to contest the Bristol West seat in 2017
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