What Emma spoke about.

14 Mar

2024

EN Speech

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

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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.

12 Mar

2024

SV Speech

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. It is now cheaper to change than to let the planet warm up. I wonder, where are you on this side? Those of you who are dismantling climate policy and making us miss the 2030 targets. Where are your voices to rebuild the water networks and protect the infrastructure? If you do not want to increase the climate targets, where are your demands for action for our c…

11 Mar

2024

SV Speech

Substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims (Green Claims Directive) (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Environmentally friendly. Durable. 50% less emissions. It's green. Climate compensated. Reduced climate impact. low emission levels; Best in class. Circular. environmental benefits; Future-proofed. Fossil free. Climate hero and climate neutral! Yes, dear child has many names. Many promise, but few deliver. More than half of all claims made are made out of falseho…

6 Feb

2024

EN Speech

EU2040 climate target (debate)

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– Mr President, colleagues must see beyond Fit for 55. We must now go for the next stop – 95. Se bortom 55, nu måste vi nå mål om minst 95 procent. Det här är inte läget att sikta lågt och göra minsta möjliga, men kommissionens förslag är inget annat än mellanmjölk. Jag är besviken! Halvdan miljöpolitik kommer inte att leda oss framåt. Vi kan bättre. Hur gör vi det? Genom ledarskap. Tydlighet. Vi …

6 Feb

2024

SV Speech

The need for unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after two years of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. We have done too little to support Ukraine and I am ashamed that our colleagues in Kiev are waiting for Viktor Orbán's day form to be told whether to get support from EU leaders or not. We have done too little and we need to do more. Ukraine deserves long-term stable support from all over the EU, and we need to do this. As long as it takes. Every country should p…

21 Nov

2023

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Sustainable use of plant protection products (debate)

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Jessica Polfjärd, what do M and KD think when they betray the Swedish farmers? Swedish farmers have reduced the use of plant protection products and, thanks to the Centre Party, we have received a lower requirement than other EU countries, a requirement we already meet. This legislation would get the rest of the EU countries on track, to make the same journey, to take the same costs as the Swedish…

21 Nov

2023

SV Speech

Sustainable use of plant protection products (debate)

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Sara Skyttedal, on the contrary, we are now protecting the competitiveness of Swedish farmers. The exemption that the Centre Party has negotiated says that Sweden should reduce the use of plant protection products by 15 percent, unlike 50 or 30 percent that was the original proposal. Swedish farmers have already fallen by 17%. This just means that the rest of Europe's countries have to get on trac…

21 Nov

2023

SV Speech

Sustainable use of plant protection products (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Swedish farmers are among the best in the world when it comes to low use of plant protection products. It is done with care, precision and knowledge. Swedish farmers are the forerunners and for decades it has looked like this. We have been pioneers not only when it comes to plant protection but also animal welfare and antibiotics. And it's right to be a foreru…

20 Nov

2023

EN Speech

Union certification framework for carbon removals

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Mr President, Commissioner, colleagues, to achieve our climate targets, we need three things: we need drastic cuts in emissions; we need drastic increase of carbon removals; and we need viable businesses and farmers that can remove and sequester carbon from the atmosphere. These two final points have so far been neglected a lot in the EU climate agenda, but that ends now. That’s why I’m really pro…

8 Nov

2023

SV Speech

State of the Energy Union (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. The Energy Union is fantastic. But let's be honest. The Energy Union has failed. Since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, the Energy Union would reduce the use of gas and reduce the use of Russian gas. Instead, the gas policy has done the opposite. We have increased the use of gas in the EU, we have increased imports of gas into the EU and we have increased imports o…

19 Oct

2023

SV Speech

Generational renewal in the EU farms of the future (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. I'm going to talk about something that a lot of people want, but few can, do. It's taking over the farm. We in Europe have a huge challenge when it comes to generational renewal in agriculture. In the EU, only 12% of farmers are under 40. In Sweden, a quarter of farmers are under 50 and only 5% are under 35. The European Parliament has therefore produced a report…

19 Oct

2023

SV Speech

European protein strategy (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Thank you very much for the debate we have had today. I think it has been incredibly rewarding, educational and fun. We are all united here that we need to produce more protein, and more sustainable protein, in Europe, and we can do it with the right conditions; with more research and development, lower administrative burden for farmers, increased economic profit…

19 Oct

2023

EN Speech

European protein strategy (debate)

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Madam President, dear all, first of all I would like to take this opportunity to say great thanks to the shadow rapporteurs and all of the technical teams working very hard to have a concrete and constructive debate on the future of protein. I am very happy that we have this debate today because I think it is timely, important and interesting. It is on how to enhance the production of sustainable …

5 Oct

2023

SV Speech

Urban wastewater treatment (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Without healthy rivers, healthy lakes and seas and good water purification, life as we know it cannot continue. Water is crucial, not least for the Baltic Sea. Sometimes in this house we complain about the lack of national alignment in legislation. That is why I think it is particularly important to recognise when we have been well adapted to the national circums…

13 Sep

2023

SV Speech

Reviewing the protection status of wolves and other large carnivores in the EU (topical debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Wolf, seal and cormorant. These are three predators that have something in common. They have been threatened, but stocks have now recovered to such an extent that it creates problems across Europe. So what's the problem? Well, even though these species have recovered, they are still protected by EU legislation, which acts as a brake on the sustainable manageme…

12 Jun

2023

SV Speech

EU Day for the victims of the global climate crisis (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Dear colleagues and Commissioner Vestager, I would have loved to have avoided this debate – the debate on climate refugees. I would have liked us to avoid climate change, to tackle the problems now that we can do something about them. But we see that the worse climate change gets, the more people are displaced. And the more people flee, the greater the human suff…

17 Apr

2023

EN Speech

Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions from maritime transport - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Social Climate Fund - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation (debate)

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When they go high, we go low. Herr talman! Det svenska klimatarbetet har varit ifrågasatt det senaste halvåret. Men när regeringen viker ner sig och vill öka utsläppen, då ser vi till att de minskar i EU. När Moderaterna ville sänka Sveriges klimatmål och betala för att utsläppsminskningar skulle ske någon annanstans så förhandlade Centerpartiet fram 100 miljarder till gröna innovationer. När Kris…

29 Mar

2023

SV Speech

Fluorinated Gases Regulation - Ozone-depleting substances (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Did you know that last year twice as many heating systems were sold using fossil gas compared to heat pumps in Germany? This shows us that we need every heat pump if we are to be able to phase out Russian gas. But F-gases are used in heat pumps – F-gases that have an incredibly high impact on the climate and the greenhouse effect and need to be phased out. Here, …

15 Mar

2023

EN Speech

Conclusions of the Special European Council meeting of 9 February and preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 March 2023 (debate)

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Madam President, it’s been very interesting. I’ve been listening to the discussion and I have several questions. I would have wanted to ask the EPP about the new trade agreement with the US. I would have wanted to ask the Council about the potential ICE ban. I want to talk about the Greens with their naive view on mining activities and to The Left on the electricity market reform. But we had no bl…

13 Mar

2023

DE Speech

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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Madam President, It doesn't happen often, but today I would like to address you in German as a Swede and a liberal. I really never thought that I would have to explain the value of climate protection measures to Germany. Germany! But if the whole future of the Fit for 55 package is at stake, it requires extreme measures. I look at you and turn to you, the German government. Fit for 55 is our roadm…

15 Feb

2023

EN Speech

Access to strategic critical raw materials (debate)

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Madam President, lithium, copper, aluminium, iron, cobalt, nickel; the list could go on. We in Europe need metals and minerals if we are serious about the green transition and tackling climate change. And it’s become painfully clear during the pandemic and the war in Ukraine how reliant we are on Russia and China and how dangerous though those dependencies are. If we are to be serious, we need min…

13 Feb

2023

SV Speech

REPowerEU chapters in recovery and resilience plans (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. 250 million tonnes of CO2. Dear colleagues, as we vote on the energy crisis package and the funding for phasing out Russian gas, we can be really proud. We stood up to the Commission's anti-climate proposal, a proposal that would have increased emissions in Europe by 250 million tonnes. In this situation – when we are in the midst of both a climate crisis and …

9 Nov

2022

SV Speech

REPowerEU chapters in recovery and resilience plans (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. 250 million tons. That was as much as the Commission wanted to increase emissions to bring in €20 billion. That is totally unacceptable. Do you hear how sick that sounds? 250 million tons more emissions! This was unacceptable to me as a negotiator. We are in the midst of an energy crisis as a result of our gas dependency – a gas dependency that is also exacerbati…

13 Sep

2022

SV Speech

Consequences of drought, fire, and other extreme weather phenomena: increasing EU's efforts to fight climate change (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, thank you very much. One and a half degrees. That's the target. This is the dream scenario of the Paris Agreement. But a planet that has warmed up by one and a half degrees – it is not a dream planet. Extreme weather conditions are currently affecting not only Europe but the whole world. Southern Europe's forests are burning. Twenty of the world's 3…

13 Sep

2022

SV Speech

Consequences of drought, fire, and other extreme weather phenomena: increasing EU's efforts to fight climate change (debate)

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– I do not understand the Green Group. Now we are talking about climate change and its consequences, but we also need to solve the climate issue. This week we are going to vote on the Renewable Energy Directive. However, the Green Group is consistently voting in favour of reducing the availability of bioenergy and forestry residues, making it more difficult for hydropower, making it almost impossi…