What Pär spoke about.

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Feb

2023

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Access to strategic critical raw materials (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. When we discuss these issues, we naturally get into mines and we know that mining poses challenges for nature and local communities. I am thinking above all of northern Sweden, northern Finland and the Sami, Europe's last indigenous people. Where it literally becomes an existential threat to the reindeer, reindeer husbandry that is so central to their culture.…

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Dec

2022

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Outcome of COP27 (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. Commissioner Timmermans! I'm doing the same analysis as many others when it comes to COP27. Small steps in the right direction when it comes to the work on loss and damage, damage and losses, but unfortunately a big disappointment when it comes to the very central work to quickly reduce our emissions. As regards the work on loss and damage, I have a question f…

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Oct

2022

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UN Climate Change Conference 2022 in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt (COP27) (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Tonight we have with us a young climate activist from Kenya, Elizabeth Wathuti. We were some who met her and talked to her yesterday about the millions of people who right now are literally at the forefront of the climate crisis, the climate catastrophe – people at risk of starvation, people who do not have access to anything as obvious as clean drinking water, a…

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Oct

2022

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Humanitarian situation after the devastating floods in Pakistan and the climate crisis (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. The terrible floods in Pakistan are, of course, a clear example of an extreme weather event in a warmer climate. However, it is also, unfortunately, a clear example of an event where we can no longer just talk about climate adaptation. Looking ahead in this century, we will see more and more areas that we will actually no longer be able to save and restore. What …

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Jul

2022

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Recent heat wave and drought in the EU (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. If there is one thing we can be absolutely sure of when it comes to global warming, it is that the risk of severe heat waves is increasing. They're getting more, they're getting worse, and with that, the consequences: forest fires, high temperatures, poor harvests, etc., etc. There is probably no other context in which every tenth degree will be so clear. Many in…

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Jun

2022

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Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States (Effort Sharing Regulation) - Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) - CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 2))

Mr President, thank you very much. We need to accelerate the pace of the climate transition and raise our ambitions if we are even to be close to the Paris Agreement. Nevertheless, so many of my colleagues in this House are doing everything right now, when we are going to concretise climate legislation, to make it, as a matter of urgency, a Swiss cheese – full of holes, full of loopholes so that n…

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Apr

2022

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Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. Vice President Timmermans! As a meteorologist, I have followed the IPCC's work and reports for over 30 years, and it is just to note that the reports are getting thicker, they contain increasingly facts and increasingly clear warnings. At the same time, we can also summarise these reports in a single sentence. Because they actually say ‘Oh well, that's a littl…

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Mar

2022

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General Union Environment Action Programme to 2030 (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. It is a little over a week now since the IPCC published the latest compilation, which is the most comprehensive compilation of assessments of the consequences of climate change so far. It's an extremely gloomy read. The effects are more serious, coming faster than expected and the final sentence of the report is clear. It says: Any further delay in coordinated…

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Feb

2022

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Implementation of the Toy Safety Directive (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. A non-toxic everyday life for everyone and not least our children, it should surely be a matter of course. We should not even have to discuss these issues in Parliament. But we need that. For the children are surrounded by foreign, dangerous substances in their everyday life. There are toxins in the food, water, clothes and, not least, unfortunately, in the toys.…

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Jan

2022

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Protection of animals during transport - Protection of animals during transport (Recommendation) (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. I was going to say ‘kiitos’, but then I would say ‘thank you’ in Swedish. We have all seen horrific images of neglected animals crammed together in confined spaces without enough water and fodder, on nightmarishly long journeys through Europe. Unfortunately, however, our work in committee for about a year and a half has only confirmed what we already knew. Ani…

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Nov

2021

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Outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. The EU got a clear back home from COP26: Our policy is inadequate. The emissions gap needs to be reduced, and quickly. All countries were invited to raise their ambitions for the 2030 targets by COP27 next year, including the EU. We need to show this now with concrete reductions in emissions. Not just some sort of numerical fork in terms of possible carbon sinks,…

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Oct

2021

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UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, the UK (COP26) (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. The least we can do is as much as possible. For over 30 years now, climate research has been very clear about what we need to do. For over 30 years, climate policy has done too little, too late. Time is actually running out of us. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows how the probability of achieving the Paris Agreement is onl…

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Oct

2021

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Farm to Fork Strategy (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. We are in three different crises right now – climate, environment and health. We probably all understand that these are interrelated, that they are affected by our food production system and that they also affect the same. These brutal attacks, which I have heard at least from parts of the right, but above all from lobbyist organisations from industrialised ag…

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Oct

2021

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The Arctic: opportunities, concerns and security challenges (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. The Arctic and the people who live there are literally on the front line of the climate crisis. Now I think not only about the melting of snow and ice, but also about the rapid loss of biodiversity, and what this entails, for example, for reindeer husbandry at home in Sweden. When you understand this bigger picture, then it actually becomes completely disrespe…

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Sep

2021

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EU contribution to transforming global food systems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Ahead of the UN's major summit on global food security next week, a report was released showing that as much as 90% - 90%! – of all the agricultural subsidies paid out, our health is actually deteriorating and our environment is deteriorating. Last month, another report on agricultural aid in the world showed that, if it continues to be as it is now, there is a l…

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Sep

2021

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Natural disasters during the summer 2021 - Impacts of natural disasters in Europe due to climate change (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, thank you very much. Forest fires, floods, too little water or too much water. Climate-related natural disasters have become five times more common in the past 50 years, according to the World Meteorological Organization. For me and others who have followed the climate issue for a long time, this is no surprise. We have long known that continued glo…

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Jul

2021

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General Union Environment Action Programme to 2030 (debate)

. Madam President, thank you very much. Many thanks to my colleague Grace O’Sullivan for working on this report. The programme fell slightly in the shadow of the Green deal with the Commission. It's a pity. We know that legislation outweighs the strategies of the Green Deal, and we have also seen in other policy areas how strategies and the legislation itself do not always go hand in hand. I very …