What Pär spoke about.

16 Dec

2024

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Right to clean drinking water in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, I would like to thank you for your As many speakers have stated before me, access to fresh and clean drinking water is a human right. Yet we fail so badly to protect this right in the EU. About 25% of our groundwater does not reach the levels we have said it should – and that quarter should in turn be enough for about 2/3 of our drinking water. In one test, PFAS was found in 94% o…

25 Nov

2024

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Outcome of the UN Biodiversity Conference 2024 in Cali, Colombia (COP16) (debate)

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Madam President, I would like to thank you for your Some progress was made during the COP16 meeting in Cali. The single most important thing – for me anyway – was the clear recognition of the key role of indigenous peoples in these processes. But these little steps aren't enough. We need to take big steps forward now. For example, we know that legally binding targets and agreements are required to…

23 Oct

2024

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Need to strengthen rail travel and the railway sector in Europe (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to thank you. For over five years now I have made every single journey between Sweden and Strasbourg and Brussels by train. It is possible to travel by train far in Europe, but it does not always go well and above all it must be easier. For this to happen, the Commission needs to start with what should have happened already during the previous mandate. You know, all that…

18 Sep

2024

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The devastating floods in Central and Eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate change (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to thank you. Thank you very much for this debate! After these first two hours, I can say that many here, but unfortunately not all, understand that these floods are not a single event. We know that as long as global warming continues, these kinds of natural disasters will become more frequent and worse. We also know that with current climate policies, we are moving from…

16 Sep

2024

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Outcome of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture (debate)

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Mr President, I would like to thank you. Madam Commissioner, I would like to thank you for your We Greens have long been insisting that the common agricultural policy in the EU must be fundamentally changed. The money will of course be invested in those farmers who are already planetary caretakers, and all those farmers who want to change agriculture so that it sequesters more carbon, takes better…

24 Apr

2024

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The attack on climate and nature: far right and conservative attempts to destroy the Green Deal and prevent investment in our future (topical debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, thank you very much. Every time I've been here in Strasbourg, I've had this brooch on me that shows how much carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere. Five years ago, we had just passed 410 parts per million. I think it was 411 on the first time I was here in September 2019. Now it's 425. For every one millionth of additional CO2 in the atmosphere,…

12 Mar

2024

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EU climate risk assessment, taking urgent action to improve security and resilience in Europe (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Hundreds of thousands of people die in heat waves and costs in the order of SEK 10 000 billion per year just to protect the coasts of the EU against flooding as the seas rise. These are just some of the examples in the latest EEA report. We've been getting similar data from science for decades now. Yet the majority of the European Parliament chooses to turn a …

6 Feb

2024

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EU2040 climate target (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. 90% by 2040 may sound ambitious compared to 1990, but that is not enough. This is not in line with what science requires. In addition, we would need to update the scientific evidence given the rapid acceleration of global warming that we are seeing right now. We would need to have a target of having such small emissions by 2040 that carbon storage can be larger. …

15 Jan

2024

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Ozone depleting substances - Fluorinated gases regulation (joint debate - Gas emissions)

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Mr President, thank you very much. When we look back at the late 80's, when we began to understand the problem of an ever thinner ozone layer, what we often at the poles at least usually describe as an ozone hole. What we did then, it is often highlighted as a good example of how politics can really listen to science and take in the alarm reports that existed then. What happened was that the count…

20 Nov

2023

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Union certification framework for carbon removals

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Mr President, thank you very much. Welcome to your new mission. Welcome, too, Commissioner Hoekstra! We are really in the midst of a climate crisis now - a climate catastrophe. And it is no longer enough just to quickly reduce emissions. We also need to develop technologies that remove carbon from the atmosphere, store it in farmland and in our forests. But if we're going to do it, we're going to …

4 Oct

2023

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Need to complete new trade agreements for sustainable growth, competitiveness and the EU’s strategic autonomy (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. It was 35.8 degrees here in France on Monday, the highest temperature recorded in October in France. September was 1.7-1.8 degrees warmer than pre-industrial levels globally. 1,7-1,8 degrees. It is much more than 1.5 degrees. We're already on the wrong side. We are at full speed into a climate catastrophe. We have a climate emergency. Within the EU, we must us…

12 Sep

2023

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Ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (debate)

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–Mr President, Commissioner, thank you very much. There are 300,000 premature deaths per year. Yet we are not dealing with this as the crisis and catastrophe it is. Would we do that in any other context? I hardly think so. Yet here we hear many, especially on the conservative side, who claim that we would not be able to afford to deal with these issues. Of course we can afford to do that! On the c…

12 Sep

2023

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Towards a more disaster-resilient EU - protecting people from extreme heatwaves, floods and forest fires (debate)

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–Mr President, This summer, this year – here in Europe – and people around the world have a taste of what it means to live in a warmer and warmer world. Already within a couple of decades, with the ambitions that we have here in the EU, in the US and in China, we will have a two-degree warmer world. And for every additional tenth of a degree of global warming, the consequences come – in the form o…

11 Jul

2023

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Nature restoration (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. It's been pretty hot in here today. It's hot out there. It might be 37, 38 degrees this afternoon. I do not know if there is anything symbolic about it, because, if not this year, then at least next year, global warming will reach one and a half degrees for the first time. That's what you might call a fever limit for the entire planet. The Intergovernmental Panel…

14 Jun

2023

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Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. It really doesn't look good. Not a single country in the world is on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. And what's the reason? First of all, of course, we have far too low ambitions in the climate transition. Secondly, we are not trying to save biodiversity. And thirdly, we do not understand the big picture – that we need to work on both ecolo…

13 Jun

2023

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Ensuring food security and the long-term resilience of EU agriculture (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. These are important issues we are debating tonight and we are voting on tomorrow. Then we will finally ensure that we have food supplies in the future and that Europe's farmers can cope with the big, big challenges that we face. For me as a green person, it goes without saying that the two really big challenges we face are climate change and the loss of biodivers…

11 May

2023

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Prohibiting chick and duckling killing in EU law (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, dear colleagues – although we are not that many still here on a late Thursday afternoon, which is a pity because this is an important topic. On the other hand, it’s 2023 and we shouldn’t even need to discuss this anymore, but we do. As we know, every year the EU animal agricultural industry kills roughly one third of a billion baby chicks and ducklings. As many other…

11 May

2023

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European Citizens' Initiative "Stop Finning – Stop the trade" (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Thank you, and above all a huge thank you to the more than 1.1 million European citizens who have demanded this – from all the Member States. This is indeed a hugely important and urgent issue, and the role of the European Union in this literal soup is very central. It is approaching 50 percent involvement of all shark fin trade in the world. Thousands of tonnes …

8 May

2023

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Methane emissions reduction in the energy sector (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. The greenhouse effect on planet Earth has never before increased as fast as it does right now. In recent weeks, carbon dioxide levels are about five parts per million higher than a year ago. This is a rate of increase that is in the order of twice the rate we have had on average over the last 10-20 years. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) also …

20 Apr

2023

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IPCC report on Climate Change: a call for urgent additional action (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. In fact, the sixth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can be summed up in a single sentence: The situation is worse than in the reports before. That's what every report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says. I've been following them all for over 30 years. Why is that so? Well, it depends on two things. One is that research is …

17 Apr

2023

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Deforestation Regulation (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. It's time to talk about the forest again. This time not only forests within the EU, but all the world's forests and how to protect them from deforestation and deforestation. These are issues that are so obvious that we shouldn't even have to discuss them. It is a piece of legislation that could give us a very, very big positive effect in the near future. But at h…

29 Mar

2023

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Fluorinated Gases Regulation - Ozone-depleting substances (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. First of all a big thank you to my Swedish colleague Jessica Polfjärd. It's been a lot of fun working together. It has been ambitious and it has been a good result, but given that, I really wonder, why is it that the Moderates at home in Sweden are not ambitious in the climate issue and the climate transition? The assessment made by the Climate Policy Council thi…

16 Mar

2023

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Long term commitment to animal welfare (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, sadly it’s been difficult to get a majority to agree that animal welfare really needs to be a higher priority on our agenda, and we are still fighting to get a resolution on this issue. As Greens, we would like to see animal welfare in the title of an EU commissioner, or even a dedicated commissioner for animal welfare. Because there is so much work left to do and high …

13 Mar

2023

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Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States (Effort Sharing Regulation) - Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) - Revision of the Market Stability Reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. It is both fascinating and rather frightening, I think, to listen to this debate. There seem to be so many people in this House who are satisfied and happy and who seem to think that what we have arrived at is enough – when we are so far from what is required by science to be in line with the Paris Agreement. This, in turn, makes us even more dependent on negativ…

16 Feb

2023

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Availability of fertilisers in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Commissioner, thank you very much. Today we are discussing manure and this is really not a shit issue. It is about the transition. And we know how many farmers in the EU want to be at the forefront of the transition. We get an increased interest in organic farming, regenerative, permaculture, view of other crop rotation, not least to get nitrogen-fixing legume…