What Emma spoke about.

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 that all motorists do their homework and so that we jointly reduce emissions from the transport sector. That is why, Jessica Stegrud, the transport sector must enter the emissions trading system, but the Sweden Democrats will say no to that.

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 act here and now on climate change, and we need to do it within my generation. We need to do it now. And the EU Emission Trading Scheme is the world’s most powerful climate tool that we have to combat fossil energy, and we really need to cherish that. But we also need to step up our game and we need to take it to the next level. And as negotiator for Renew, I’m therefore extremely proud of what we present to you today, because we need our emissions trading scheme to be the global example and to step up, and when both the left and the right have been in doubt, wanting to lower the ambitions, we in Renew have stepped up. We need to step up on the ambition level and that’s why we propose to raise the speed of emission reductions. We need to step up on the emissions covered, and that’s why we propose to include more sectors. We need to step up the investments in green technology, and that’s why we proposed a climate investment fund. We need new energy in Europe and we need to step up on all levels. Vi behöver ny energi till Europa och vi behöver skärpning på alla plan. (Talaren godtog att svara på ett inlägg ("blått kort"))

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 sectors?

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 here for two years. The climate crisis has been here much longer. We must be able to deal with other crises in parallel with dealing with the climate crisis. The climate transition must not be the first to be sacrificed in a crisis. But if, like many of you on the right-wing, you refuse to acknowledge the climate crisis, then it may also be easy to sacrifice it, the first thing you do. I believe in the climate crisis. I want to do something about it. And that is why I am voting for increased climate ambition.

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. We are still funding Putin's war. There is only one way forward, and there is an urgent import ban on Russian gas. It will bring major changes and new paths. It will require us to do everything we can to transform and reduce the impact on the energy market and bring down the soaring energy prices. It requires us to start producing more biogas and bioenergy, to start energy efficiency, to start procuring energy solutions together, to start saying no to gas for heating, to start fully establishing the Energy Union. In addition, it demands that we stop putting a stick in the wheel of renewable energy, stop talking about cutting cables between countries, stop being protectionists and energy nationalists, and stop being useful idiots in Putin's war.

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 signs, while at the same time we in this house want to give the green light to fossil gas. It's all wrong. We need more renewable energy and we need it now. More policies like this are needed to expand renewables and strengthen Europe's electricity grid. If we are to solve the climate crisis together, we cannot be climate nationalists. We need to work together in Europe to connect our electricity grid. A larger energy system with many interconnectors increases security of supply, but it also enables higher use of renewable energy and makes renewable energy more competitive and profitable. So now there are voices in the Swedish debate that speak instead of dismantling the common energy market and the electricity grid, that each country should manage on its own. This is detrimental not only to European cooperation, but also to climate action. I'm looking at you, Left Party. The recent events are nothing more than climate nationalism and it is damaging our valuable transformation work for more new energy in Europe.

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 today on several sharp recommendations to mark and put our foot down on how the transport of the future needs to be improved. I have a few examples: We want to see tougher penalties for those Member States that ignore EU legislation on sustainable animal transport. It should be punished for violating these rules. We want stricter rules, time limits and stricter requirements for maritime transport, land transport within the EU and exports, i.e. the transport of animals to third countries. We need more science and less gut feeling about animal transport. We need stricter scientific advice and research in this area, and we need stricter protection for the most vulnerable animals and the smallest animals. But we in the Centre Party and Renew Europe are not satisfied with this alone. We will not be content to make recommendations, but we will be a nail in the eye of the Commission and the European institutions until we see real action. It should not be possible for countries to get away and for us to treat animals badly. We will not be satisfied until the threat of antibiotic resistance is removed, until animal welfare is improved across the EU and until all animals are transported safely.

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 we see how energy prices are rushing. It is a serious situation, and the most remarkable thing about this report that we are discussing here today, on the state of the Energy Union, is that the EU is still subsidising fossil energy. It is not small sums, money that could go from the fossil to the renewable. There, we subsidize with SEK 520 billion, equivalent to 17,000 wind turbines that could instead have been built for that money. That is totally unacceptable. Fossil subsidies do not belong in our energy system and therefore we must not forget the Energy Union. We need to make the Energy Union sexy again.

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 targets by 2050. We need to take China and India with us. In addition, we should be a leader in working towards a global price for carbon dioxide. But it is also extremely important that we recognise that not enough has been done at international level, but also not at European level. We need to do our own homework and speed up the ambitions in our climate package and the work we are working on right now. We need to move from words to action. We have to walk the talk.

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 – renewables are better than fossils, and state aid should under no circumstances go to fossils. Nor can we punish renewables. Today we have high prices for petrol and diesel, but it will be impossible to switch, unless the renewable alternatives are competitive. I don't know how many of you have worked in companies or are entrepreneurs, but a year's time is far too short to make any investments. We must make renewables the rule, not the exception.

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 stop the transition. Renewable energy has unbeatably the lowest prices, and that is why we need to phase out fossil fuels. It's expensive, it's dirty, and it's hurting our planet. The recent discussions, that the transition is due to the climate transition, is fake news. It is Russian gas and it is Putin who keeps energy prices up in Europe. This shows us that we need to stop subsidizing fossil energy. We need to strengthen emissions trading and we need to speed up the transition, because we need new energy in Europe.

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 Trading System (ETS) is Europe's most important tool for reducing emissions. It is an effective marketing tool to take us all the way. As Renew Europe's negotiator in charge, I pledge to do everything I can to ensure that we have the most effective tool possible. I know, however, that there are people in here who say that they want the best for the climate, but who at the same time say that they want to postpone the timetable, who at the same time say that it will be too expensive, who at the same time say that it will be too risky and who at the same time say that emission reductions will take place elsewhere. Colleagues, we have to be brave and do what it takes!

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 message to give to you today, and let me be very clear: (The speaker remained silent for 30 seconds.) No more words can save us now – we need climate action.