What Emma spoke about.

12 Sep

2022

EN Speech

Conservation and enforcement measures applicable in the Regulatory Area of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO) - Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention Area: conservation and management measures (debate)

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Mr President, if we are to solve the climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis, we need healthy and resilient oceans and we need global solutions – and the Union memberships in international regional fisheries—management organisations are key tools. Today, we are debating two such organisations and the memberships that we have there, and we, together with the colleagues and the rapporteur, are no…

5 Jul

2022

SV Speech

Objection pursuant to Rule 111(3): Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act (debate)

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But Tobe and the Moderates, now confuse the cards. This vote is not just about nuclear energy, it is about the greenwashing of fossil natural gas. And no, I don't think it's worth it. Then you have to redo and you have to do the right thing and put the nuclear power in a separate file. But to mix it in and green-classify fossil energy and call it sustainable, and label your and my pension money wi…

5 Jul

2022

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Objection pursuant to Rule 111(3): Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Let me be clear. There is nothing sustainable about fossil fuels. There is nothing sustainable about fossils. It is only hypocrisy to pretend like it, and it is hypocrisy that the Liberals, Christian Democrats and Moderates are now engaging in by greening and greenwashing fossil natural gas in the EU taxonomy framework. In its enthusiasm for nuclear power, it has…

5 Jul

2022

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Objection pursuant to Rule 111(3): Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act (debate)

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Although this may not be the last time you and I are debating, Jytte, it may be the last time in a very, very long time. Therefore, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you, Jytte, for your incredibly strong climate commitment, which will be missing in this house when you go home to Sweden. I just want to say thank you for your deed and your strong climate drive! Bring it home and contin…

7 Jun

2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))

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The Sweden Democrats, you are not proposing that the emissions trading system should apply to the transport sector. This means that the cost is only charged to the Swedish motorists. We have the record high CO2 charges on petrol and diesel in Europe. We pay high prices, but we do not do it together in the rest of Europe. That is why the transport sector must enter the emissions trading system, so …

7 Jun

2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))

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Madam President, I’m so tired of people telling me that we need to act on climate change in order to care for future generations, that we need to replace our fossil energy by 2050 in order to promise a better future for our children. Well, I will not likely retire until 2060. That means that the 2050 targets are to be met when I will still be around, and this is within my generation. We need to ac…

7 Jun

2022

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Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))

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Dear Michael, you and the Green Group always take credit sometimes in being the greenest. But as a matter of fact, it was your Group and the S&D Group that did not want to expand the ETS to road transport and buildings at all – sectors where emissions are still growing. How do you justify that to the environmental NGOs and the young generation that want us to do more and expand the ETS to those se…

4 Apr

2022

SV Speech

Revision of the Market Stability Reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Now it's up to the evidence! It is now time to vote on increased ambitions in climate action, and then the right-wing conservatives have a kind of spine reflex to shout "Stop! It's a crisis!" The first thing right-wing populists want to cut back on in a crisis is climate ambition. The gas crisis has been here for six months. The coronavirus crisis has been her…

8 Mar

2022

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Rising energy prices and market manipulation on the gas market (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. "Don't you think that Russian oil smells like blood?" asked the Ukrainian Foreign Minister. I ask you today: Don't you think the Russian gas smells like blood? The Russian gas has traces of Ukrainian blood, whether you, colleagues, want to admit it or not. To wave flags and placards echoes empty today, tomorrow and in history, if we do not stop the Russian gas. W…

14 Feb

2022

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A European strategy for offshore renewable energy (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. Securing the energy supply of renewable alternatives within the Union will be key to achieving the 2030 climate targets. Now we are voting on the strategy for offshore energy production and we unfortunately see that too many investments in new energy are being stopped, not least in Sweden. We see daily how projects to build offshore wind power are given stop s…

20 Jan

2022

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

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Madam President, thank you very much. Dear colleagues, Today is a historic day: The journey that we in the Centre Party have been fighting for too long is now coming to an end after two years of work. Finally, the European Parliament is speaking out about the unsustainable transport of animals taking place across Europe and the hellish journeys that we are exposing our animals to. We are deciding …

24 Nov

2021

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State of the Energy Union (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Energy policy is climate policy, and I am therefore very pleased that we are talking today about the Energy Union, which is often forgotten in climate policy. But we need to get better at working together in the energy field, internationally and in the energy industry, because here we are lagging behind: In 2019, 73 percent of Europe's energy was still fossil and…

20 Oct

2021

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

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Mr. Speaker! Colleagues! Next week I'm going to the climate summit in Glasgow, but my biggest concern is that this meeting will once again be a meeting with a lot of talk and a little workshop. The EU and the rest of the world need to agree to significantly increase their climate ambition to meet the 1.5°C target. We have to work together. More countries need to adopt binding climate-neutrality ta…

19 Oct

2021

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Climate, Energy and Environmental State aid guidelines (“CEEAG”) (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. One year. This is the exception that Sweden has received to support renewable fuels. One year at a time, and that counts as an exception. This is what has allowed us to go from 5% ethanol in our petrol pumps to 10%. However, it is only an exception. Now we have the chance to redo and do the right thing when it comes to EU state aid rules. We need to be clear – re…

6 Oct

2021

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European solutions to the rise of energy prices for businesses and consumers: the role of energy efficiency and renewable energy and the need to tackle energy poverty (debate)

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Madam President, thank you very much. EUR 0,07 per megawatt-hour. Minus €0.03 per megawatt hour. Minus €0.08 per megawatt hour. This is the system price for electricity in northern Europe from the last weekend. Why? Because wind power is pushing down electricity prices. And if you are serious about worrying about high energy prices in Europe, it is dishonest to lock households in fossil energy and…

14 Sep

2021

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Presentation of the Fit for 55 package after the publication of the IPCC report (debate)

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Mr President, thank you very much. Dear colleagues, The IPCC report is a reminder that we have waited far too long and that we still have sectors where emissions are increasing. It's a reminder of what we had to do 20 to 30 years ago. As legislators, we must have courage. We need to do what it takes to stay below 1.5 degrees of warming. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: The EU Emissions …

7 Jul

2021

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General Union Environment Action Programme to 2030 (debate)

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Mr President, dear colleagues, and Europe: this is the first time I speak to you in this Parliament. And I will address what concerns me the most: I will address climate change. With 73% of fossil energy in Europe’s energy system, this environmental action programme that we have in front of us today gives us a unique chance to end the fossil subsidies and end a fossil era. And I have a clear messa…