What Emma spoke about.

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Oct

2025

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UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30) (debate)

Madam President, where is the climate leadership? I am genuinely worried that the Paris Agreement would not be possible today – the climate leadership has disappeared. Our next climate conference is approaching, but the EU is still empty handed. Where is our climate target? Where is our contribution to the global COP agenda? And at the same time, country after country failed to reach their climate…

21

Oct

2025

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Standing Forest and Forestry Expert Group (A10-0175/2025 - Emma Wiesner, Pekka Toveri) (vote)

Mr President, thank you very much. Forests offer recreation. They store carbon, protect biodiversity and enable rural communities to live and develop. National experts are those who know forests best and must be at the heart of EU policies affecting forests. Because the conditions vary from Lapland to the Alps, between Finland and Spain, it is precisely this local expertise that is crucial. For de…

21

Oct

2025

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Monitoring framework for resilient European forests (A10-0176/2025 - Emma Wiesner, Eric Sargiacomo) (vote)

Mr President, today our national forest monitoring systems speak different languages. With this law, we have an opportunity to build a system that would be able to translate those languages into a common European one, a language that could help us understand why forest fires grow more common, why bark beetle attacks become more severe, to help and assist our forest owners. The Commission proposal …

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Oct

2025

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Europe’s automotive future – reversing the ban on the sale of combustion cars in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, I've got a message for you, the climate deniers and the climate delayers of this House – you who love to blame electric vehicles for everything. You blame them for higher energy prices and lack of competitiveness. Well, guess what? You are the ones to blame for the higher energy prices and the lack of competitiveness. You are so stubborn, but the logic isn't there. First, you say it …

7

Oct

2025

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Common agricultural policy (joint debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Today I want to talk directly to you, all Swedish farmers. It's a long way from your yards here to Brussels and Strasbourg. But the fact is, I hear you all the way here. Tomorrow we will vote on two simplification packages that are designed just for you, to make life easier at home on the farms. But we in the policy also do not make it easy for you, because even …

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Sep

2025

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Devastating wildfires in Southern Europe: the need to strengthen EU aid to restore the massive loss of forests and enhancing EU preparedness (debate)

Mr President, here we go again. We have had another summer with a record of forest and wildfires: almost 1 million hectares have burned this year. At the same time, cities like Stockholm have faced severe water shortages. And this week, more regions in Sweden are hit by devastating floods. New studies from this summer also shows that the Gulf Stream might collapse within our lifetime. Climate chan…

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May

2025

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The European Water Resilience Strategy (debate)

Madam President, thank you very much. We need to talk about PFAS, these perpetual chemicals, created by humans and completely impossible to break down – the very definition of unsustainable. They are everywhere: in the water we drink, in the air we breathe and in the products we consume. Although we know how harmful they are to humans and animals and that they accumulate in nature, this Parliament…

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Apr

2025

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European oceans pact (debate)

Mr President, I would like to thank you. The fact that these issues are being discussed today is both welcome and important. But let's be honest: What our oceans need is not more discussions and conversations. We need to act. In the Baltic Sea, we can see how environmental degradation continues, how our marine ecosystems are being destroyed and how fish stocks are close to collapse completely. Thi…

13

Mar

2025

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A Vision for Agriculture and Food (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. Dear Commissioner for Agriculture, Where's the profit? The vision for European agriculture talks about income, income and income. But what European farmers need is profit, profit, profit. I am disappointed that we are setting the bar so low, because if agriculture is the backbone of society, food is its heart. At a time when farmers across Europe are sounding the…

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Mar

2025

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Accelerating the phase-out of Russian gas and other Russian energy commodities in the EU (debate)

Mr President, in 2015, the Commission launched the plans for the energy union in order to make us more independent from Russian gas. Now, seven years later, we see the results from the major investment in LNG terminals and gas infrastructure and so on. And the result is very clear: at the start of this war, we were more dependent on Russian gas than ever. We import more, we use more gas and we imp…

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Mar

2025

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Accelerating the phase-out of Russian gas and other Russian energy commodities in the EU (debate)

My question is simple: do you want to end the war? Because if you want to end the war, it's quite clear that the more finance, the more euros we put in Putin's pockets, the harder it would be for Ukraine to win. So, sanctioning Russian energy, sanctioning the oil and gas – well, it's the obvious answer. If we want to end the war, we cannot finance a war. So, do you really want to end it?…

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Jan

2025

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

Mr President, thank you very much. Last year was the warmest year ever recorded. In fact, every year from now on looks to be the warmest year ever. As if that were not enough, today a climate denier is sworn in as president of one of the world's largest countries again. Most recently, he withdrew from the Paris Agreement, and there is no doubt or doubt that he will do so again. The world's most po…

20

Jan

2025

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

This is ridiculous. You and the Sweden Democrats regret the climate crisis and high emissions in China when the Sweden Democrats voted against the EU emissions trading system that prices industry instead of ordinary people. You voted against the CBAM, which is pricing emissions in China, and you are voting against renewable energy to replace fossil fuels. In fact, the Sweden Democrats, you have wo…

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Dec

2024

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Restoring the EU’s competitive edge – the need for an impact assessment on the Green Deal policies (topical debate)

Mr President, colleagues, I've been listening and you say you don't want the Green Deal because you don't want a change, that it will be expensive, but wake up – open your eyes. With 3.1 °C of climate change – that's what will change society, that's what will be expensive. So what you are proposing is actually going into much more change and a much more costly scenario. Open your eyes – it's happe…

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Nov

2024

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Outcome of COP 29 and challenges for international climate policy (debate)

I didn't get it. Do you believe in climate change or you don't?

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Nov

2024

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Outcome of COP 29 and challenges for international climate policy (debate)

Mr President, so, how to summarise this COP29? It's a mixed bag of feelings: from disappointment to embarrassment to determination and a relief that there is a deal. But we have to ask ourselves, what will future generations remember from Baku? And just as many times before, we didn't do enough, we didn't do it in time, and we didn't do it in place. We have to face it. The USD 300 billion – well, …

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Nov

2024

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Outcome of COP 29 and challenges for international climate policy (debate)

Ondřej, the 3.1 °C scenario of climate change – that is what will destroy Europe's economy. Is that really your message to the small island states, the developing countries that have not emitted historically but are now suffering from climate change? Their islands are disappearing, and your message is 'we are destroying our economy'? We built our economy based on fossil fuels. They have none, and …

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Nov

2024

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UN Climate Change Conference 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan (COP29) (debate)

Mr President, I would like to thank you. Every COP counts. This isn't a gimmick. For every COP, we are making progress on climate cooperation, which is needed now more than ever. But I am ashamed to go as a Swede to Baku and negotiate for the COP when we have a government that repeatedly fails the climate work. The most effective way to get the rest of the world to increase climate ambition is to …

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Oct

2024

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EU actions against the Russian shadow fleets and ensuring a full enforcement of sanctions against Russia (debate)

Madam President, I would like to thank you for your 600 ghost ships – floating environmental disasters right into Putin’s war chest. It goes without saying, this is completely unacceptable. Unregistered, uninsured and unreliable. We must act, and we must act now. So let me be specific. There has been a lot of talk and a little workshop here today. First of all, we need to shut down European waters…

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Oct

2024

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Situation in Azerbaijan, violation of human rights and international law and relations with Armenia (debate)

Mr President, we are approaching the global climate conference and our focus right now should be on the global existential climate crisis. But at the same time, we cannot ignore what is happening all over Azerbaijan, in Baku and in the host country of the COP29. Azerbaijan has violating human rights for a really long time, but this year they have really been stepping it up. Opposition figures, jou…

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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)

Mr President, I would like to thank you. First of all, I would like to deplore the sadness and the situation that the people affected by flooding in Eastern Europe are currently facing, and the extreme weather that is taking place throughout this Union. It is high time that this issue was raised in plenary. Extreme weather is becoming more frequent as climate change increases and we need to pull o…

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Sep

2024

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State of the Energy union (debate)

Mr President, isn't it a little bit typical that when we're talking about competitiveness, this room is full. And now when we're talking about one of the most important pillars to get there, well, let's say it's not as full. But first of all, Commissioner Simpson, I want to say thank you, because this report really witnesses about results. Imagine where we were just a few years ago. We really see …

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Sep

2024

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

Mr President, I would like to thank you. There are many interesting proposals here now that the dialogue for strengthening European agriculture is being presented, and I look forward to the Commission now also making a workshop of these proposals that our farmers have been involved in developing. It is particularly important that the signal is now clear that a new animal welfare law is needed. The…

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Mar

2024

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Promised revision of the EU animal welfare legislation and the animal welfare-related European citizens’ initiatives (debate)

Mr President, thank you very much. The beaks of chickens are cut off without stunning, pigtails are cut off or eaten by other pigs. Castration and slaughter are carried out without stunning. Forced feeding of ducks, and rooster and bullfighting. This sounds like medieval facts, but it's still legal in the EU. Not in Sweden, but in the EU. The law that should have been presented last year has not a…

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Mar

2024

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Promised revision of the EU animal welfare legislation and the animal welfare-related European citizens’ initiatives (debate)

Mr President, I was just wondering, there’s no blue-card activation for this one, is that correct? There should be no blue-card procedure for this debate.