What Jutta spoke about.

20 Jan

2025

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Heat record year 2024 - the need for climate action to fight global warming (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! Those who speak here of alarmism or catastrophism, I invite you to talk to the people in the Ahr Valley or those in Valencia or those in Greece or Austria or France, who have lost their belongings and, in the worst case, even their relatives and friends due to the extreme weather last year. If future generations will still be able to look back at the present tim…

18 Dec

2024

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Urgent need for EU action to preserve nature and protect biodiversity to avoid the extinction of species (debate)

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Mr President! Commissioner! Ladies and Gentlemen! In front of unfortunately quite empty rows, I am talking today about one of the most dramatic crises that threatens us as humanity: the extinction of species. Because without biodiversity there is no drinkable water, no clean air and no fertile soil. The last major mass extinction 66 million years ago was triggered by a meteorite and 75% of all ani…

16 Dec

2024

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Right to clean drinking water in the EU (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen! Water is life, and it is high time for the European Union to take action. More than 20 years after the adoption of the Water Framework Directive, the targets are still a long way off, and the escalating climate crisis does not, of course, improve the situation. It's about three things: Quality – water is our most important food. It's about: How clean is it? H…

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, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Sometimes I think we act like a toddler on the computer. Such a toddler on the PC bumps around on the keyboard and happily deletes files. The 47th. Holiday photo – given as a gift, the wedding picture – even more bitter, the system files – an absolute disaster. But we are just as ruthless about our nature. We are anxious to eradicate more and mo…

13 Nov

2024

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The devastating floods in Spain, the urgent need to support the victims, to improve preparedness and to fight the climate crisis (debate)

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Madam President, I would like to express my deepest sympathy to the people of Valencia who have lost everything – their home, their belongings or even friends and relatives. And I am glad that Europe stands by their side. But if double standards were a currency, then the right side of this House would not be able to get out of counting money. You are using this terrible flood disaster for your pol…

23 Oct

2024

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U-turn on EU bureaucracy: the need to axe unnecessary burdens and reporting to unleash competitiveness and innovation (topical debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! From my previous life in management, I can of course list a number of examples of unnecessary bureaucracy. You have to enter some numbers in papers, which the tax authority already has a long time ago anyway, which it could actually add up itself. You have to report to some statistical institutes, which could actually collect them from macroeconomi…

7 Oct

2024

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The extreme wildfires in Southern Europe, in particular Portugal and Greece and the need for further EU climate action on adaptation and mitigation (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen! If you want to know the state of play of the climate debate here in Europe, it is very interesting to listen to this debate. As has been rightly said, we have achieved a lot in the last legislature in the area of climate protection. But in terms of climate adaptation, there is still a lack of it. The Commission has now said: All right, w…

19 Sep

2024

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Droughts and extreme weather events as a threat to local communities and EU agriculture in times of climate change (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Not thousands, millions of people are affected by extreme weather, this year, last year and next year probably as well. It is obvious, of course, that the floods we are currently seeing in Poland, in the Czech Republic, in Austria, which occurred earlier this year in Germany and which hopefully will not devastate northern Italy tomorrow. But there …

17 Sep

2024

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State of the Energy union (debate)

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Mr President! Dear Kadri, thank you very much for everything you did in the last mandate. I will always like to think back to the joint work and wish you all the best for the future. We have achieved a lot: Dependence on Russia has fallen, emissions have fallen, and the path for 2030, for Fit for 55 is shown, is designed; We have made a lot of legislative proposals on this. But there are still big…

13 Mar

2024

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Type-approval of motor vehicles and engines with respect to their emissions and battery durability (Euro 7) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Dear Sascha, congratulations! They have managed to eliminate what is likely to be the last chance to keep the European automotive industry competitive for at least a few more years. Because one of the most important sales markets – China – has long since adopted stricter limits, which means that the cars awarded the wonderful new Euro 7 standard wi…

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, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! It is overdue for the Commission to present a strategy to adapt to climate change and address the risks threatening survival; That's why I want to praise it explicitly. But questions arise. First question to the Commission: Why do these risks appear to have played no role in the climate impact assessments? After all, 55% emission reductions by 2…

6 Feb

2024

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Water crisis and droughts in the EU as a consequence of the global climate crisis and the need for a sustainable, resilient water strategy for Europe (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! It is good that the Commission will now present a strategy to better address the future water crises. But I lack faith, because in principle we already have something like a strategy. For example, we have the Water Framework Directive. It celebrated its 20th anniversary last year, and unfortunately we are far from achieving these goals. As far as w…

14 Dec

2023

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Outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (COP28) (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Two days ago, the climate summit came to an end. And there is good news: For the first time, the obvious is mentioned in the final agreement, that we have to get out of the fossils. It's crazy that it took 30 years to acknowledge that. There are binding financings for the fund for damages and losses, which more or less crashed the climate summit in…

21 Nov

2023

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Sustainable use of plant protection products (debate)

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In my view, the term ‘plant protection products’ is indeed misleading, particularly in the case of herbicides, which are intended to kill plants. In that respect, I find the term ‘plant protection products’ to be a bit misleading. One could speak of ‘cultural protection products’ because of me, that would come closer to the matter. But let us stick to the English term ‘’, which is also very well e…

21 Nov

2023

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Sustainable use of plant protection products (debate)

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So, of course, the Commission assumed that we would not change anything else, that we would continue to throw away one third of our food, that we would continue to grow animal food on 60% of the land and not food for human consumption. I think we could do much better than think about which countries we don't want to import anything from now. I should also like to point out that, on a regular basis…

21 Nov

2023

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Sustainable use of plant protection products (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! It is interesting that every speaker here emphasizes that their own country is already a pioneer in the reduction of pesticides. Then you need not be afraid of this regulation, because the progress made will be taken into account. Now let's go back to the scientific facts. The European Environment Agency has clarified in many reports: Our biodiv…

20 Nov

2023

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UN Climate Change Conference 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (COP28) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! We go to the COP and have something with us: The EU has managed to agree on the methane regulation; we will substantially reduce methane emissions from the energy sector and we will – this is particularly important: We will also extend this to our imports. That's a big shot. This means that all importers of gas, oil and coal into the European Un…

17 Oct

2023

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Water scarcity and structural investments in access to water in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Water is life. Our blue planet is 70 percent water-covered, but only a fraction of it, a tiny fraction is freshwater – and we must finally adequately protect this elementary resource. Without clean water, we have nothing to drink. We cannot grow food, nor can we build a functioning economy. But for decades we have been dealing with the precious wat…

4 Oct

2023

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The proposed extension of glyphosate in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Incredible 4,000 tons of glyphosate are sprayed on our fields every year in Germany alone. Our citizens are rightly concerned, because it cannot be ruled out that glyphosate is carcinogenic, as the World Health Organization's Cancer Committee suspects, they should know: Probably carcinogenic. Against this background, I find it very worrying that th…

3 Oct

2023

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Classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! I'm happy! I am really pleased that we have come to good compromises in these negotiations on the Regulation on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures. I would like to thank Maria Spyraki for the fair and constructive negotiations, because this is really an important step for consumer protection. Labelling hazardous chem…

12 Sep

2023

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Sustainable aviation fuels (ReFuelEU Aviation Initiative) (debate)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! In terms of CO2 emissions, aviation is responsible for 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions. It is one of the fastest growing sectors, with more than 10 million people flying every day. That is why it is good and important that we have negotiated a law that at least creates the entry into the phase-out of fossil fuels in aviation. But let's not…

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, ladies and gentlemen. We will experience extreme weather events every year, century and millennium. This is what science has been predicting for years. Contrary to what many people claim to be just computer models, we have very powerful models, we have very powerful parameters, and this is compared with what has been observed in the past. This is not pure speculation. As I said, real…

11 Jul

2023

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COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned and recommendations for the future (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner! A year and a half of work is behind us. All facets that have occurred in this pandemic have been highlighted. We have acquired a lot of knowledge, a lot of knowledge. But we have also seen abysses in how successfully disinformation, misinformation, which is probably responsible for tens of thousands of deaths, can work. And the people who suffer from Long COVID or ME/CF…

11 Jul

2023

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Nature restoration (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Europe's nature is bad. 80% of protected ecosystems are not in good condition, 1 500 species are on the Red List, and field bird populations are in free fall. I'm old enough to know what it was like when the sky was full of larks in spring. If you have such a huge problem in front of you, there are three possibilities. The first option is the one c…

10 Jul

2023

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Industrial Emissions Directive - Industrial Emissions Portal - Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure - Sustainable maritime fuels (FuelEU Maritime Initiative) - Energy efficiency (recast) (joint debate - Fit for 55 and Industrial Emissions)

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Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! I could also talk here for half an hour, because of the laws we are discussing here, I have negotiated four. I will start with the Energy Efficiency Directive, which is the key instrument to finally put an end to energy waste, because here the fruits are so low that you have to bend over them. We have achieved a lot, but if you look at the devel…