What Pascal spoke about.

7 Feb

2024

FR Speech

Empowering farmers and rural communities - a dialogue towards sustainable and fairly rewarded EU agriculture (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we can refer to the search for scapegoats in the face. For some, it is ecology, for others, it is free trade, for the third, it is mass distribution. That won't change anything. What is needed, on the contrary, is to depolarise this subject, stop referring to bird names in the face and depolarise the subject around three key issues: first, income; secondly, the …

6 Feb

2024

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EU2040 climate target (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, you are proposing today – and this was an obligation that we set together in the European Climate Law – a target of reducing CO2 emissions by 2040 by – 90%. This figure is based on science, and so we support it. But it must also, of course, not simply lead us to set a goal, but to achieve it. And to achieve it, we see two conditions for success. Th…

6 Feb

2024

FR Speech

Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, our position is extremely clear: we are in favour of new genomic techniques, but not under any conditions. For new genomic techniques, because we want to bring a new solution to farmers facing new challenges: reducing plant protection products, pesticides and adapting to climate change. But we are not for any condition. For example, we are not in favour of a …

21 Nov

2023

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Strengthening the CO2 emission performance targets for new heavy-duty vehicles (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I wanted to remind you that we are a few days away from COP28 and that this text is absolutely fundamental for trucks and buses, since we will decarbonise all road transport in Europe, after having done so for cars and vans. It is therefore a structuring text for the next 20 to 30 years. Our responsibility is to be both ambitious and pragmatic. Amb…

9 Nov

2023

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European environmental economic accounts: new modules (A9-0296/2023 - Pascal Canfin) (vote)

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Yes, colleagues, I just have the pleasure to request the referral back to committee for interinstitutional negotiations, as a surprise, following Rule 59(4).

4 Oct

2023

FR Speech

The proposed extension of glyphosate in the EU (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that we are all keen to look at and follow science. And look precisely at what the European Food Safety Authority has said. You've all read his review. There are two messages. The first message is that glyphosate is not dangerous enough to be withdrawn from the market. And that is why you do not have a legal basis for, would you like, wit…

12 Sep

2023

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Ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (debate)

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, tomorrow we are going to vote on tightening up the rules on combating air pollution. As we have all recalled, air pollution is one of the leading causes of premature death in Europe: 300,000 deaths per year, including 40,000 in France. I am amazed that, on the part of right-wing and far-right MEPs, the priority is to degrade not only the proposa…

11 Jul

2023

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Nature restoration (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, this week we have two very important responsibilities. Our first responsibility is to save nature. I am addressing my colleagues on the right and centre-right: If you don't want to listen to unanimous scientists defending the need for this law, then listen to the European Hunters Federation. Hunters are in favour of this law. Listen to companies in…

10 May

2023

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The role of farmers as enablers of the green transition and a resilient agricultural sector (continuation of debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would first like to address my colleagues on the Conservative side. You are engaged today in an offensive against the Green Deal on the agricultural transition. Yet we managed to find agreements on industry, on mobility. Why can we not achieve this together, with the Socialists and possibly with the Greens, on the agricultural transition? Why wou…

8 May

2023

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Methane emissions reduction in the energy sector (debate)

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are going to vote on an important one-digit text: Methane emits 80 times more greenhouse gas emissions than CO2, carbon dioxide, over 20 years. Over 100 years, it still emits 25 times more greenhouse gases than CO2. We have a strategy to reduce our overall greenhouse gas emissions, which is the climate package of less than 55% of EU-wide greenhouse gas emissi…

17 Apr

2023

FR Speech

Deforestation Regulation (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we can really be proud to vote for this text, which is a world first. We can be proud first of all as the European Parliament, since it was largely we who initiated this text two years ago and pushed the Commission to act, the Member States to accept. So now, tomorrow, we have the opportunity to vote definitively on the world's first law that will …

13 Sep

2022

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

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I believe that this summer we have all touched on the consequences of climate change through drought, forest fires, heat waves and reduced agricultural yields. This must lead us to act differently tomorrow. In Europe, we are already doing a lot, through the Green Deal, to reduce our CO2 emissions, but we are not yet doing enough to make ourselves m…

12 Sep

2022

FR Speech

Deforestation Regulation (debate)

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Mr President, Commissioner, we can be proud of the text we are going to vote on imported deforestation. This is a world first. We are the first in the world to say: "Stop, we stop bringing into our market products like coffee, cocoa, palm oil, soybeans that come from deforestation of tropical forests". And this example is a great example of how powerful Europe is when it uses its single market to …

22 Jun

2022

FR Speech

Voting time

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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, two weeks ago we failed and as a Parliament it was a collective failure. It was a failure for the climate and it was a failure for this institution. And in 15 days – in just 15 days – we have managed to turn the situation around and find the compromises that I hope will allow us to vote overwhelmingly on the biggest climate package ever voted for in Europe. F…

8 Jun

2022

EN Speech

Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation (A9-0155/2022 - Sunčana Glavak) (vote)

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Madam President, so again I think we all share the fact that we need to vote consistent text. These ones, the two on aviation and CORSIA, are a package which is not connected to three first texts. So the rapporteur and the negotiating team agrees on the fact that we can go ahead and proceed today with these two texts on CORSIA ETS aviation that are disconnected of substance from the three texts th…

8 Jun

2022

FR Speech

Carbon border adjustment mechanism (A9-0160/2022 - Mohammed Chahim) (vote)

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Madam President, as chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection, which contains the three texts mentioned above: the ETS, the Social Climate Fund and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, I can say that these three texts are linked. So if we refer the ETS back to committee and we have an agreement that is different from the one we have submitted to you tod…

7 Jun

2022

FR Speech

Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States (Effort Sharing Regulation) - Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) - CO2 emission standards for cars and vans (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 2))

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Mr President, Vice-President of the Commission, Minister – dear Chrysoula – we are all bound in this Chamber by the European Climate Law. We voted for it. What does this law say? She says we need to be carbon neutral by 2050. To be carbon neutral in 2050, we need to stop selling cars that aren't 15 years ago. Why fifteen years ago? Because a car drives on average for 15 years on European roads. So…

7 Jun

2022

FR Speech

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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We have no chance to succeed in the green transition if we do not do so with industry. It is not we, politicians, who produce, who innovate, who invest. So we have to do it with the industry, but with the industry that wants to go in this direction, the industry that wants to invest in decarbonised solutions, to invent the zero-carbon industry, zero-carbon mobility. And we have allies in this part…

7 Jun

2022

FR Speech

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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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Vice-President, tomorrow's vote is historic. It is historic because, clearly, Europe will not look like it is today, our daily life will not look like it is today if we vote well for this week's climate package. We have global firsts in this package, for example the famous carbon border tax – the carbon border adjustment mechanism. We have been talking about …

24 Nov

2021

FR Speech

Outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow (debate)

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Mr President, Mr Vice-President, ladies and gentlemen, I am not one of those who think that Europe was not active enough at COP26. I have seen these criticisms. Together with Peter Liese, I chaired the European Parliament delegation in Glasgow and I saw you, Vice-President Frans Timmermans, active on all fronts. I saw Europe active in defending the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, I saw Europe …

19 Oct

2021

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

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Mrs Vestager, we strongly support the European Commission’s initiative to revise State aid in line with the Green Deal. Such State aid must indeed allow the necessary investments, both by private companies but also in support of public authorities. And you are right to point out that if we have to have more flexibility, we also need safeguards. So, in order to s…

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, Commissioner, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, I have three lessons from this debate and this crisis. The first is that there is a very large majority in this Parliament to say that this crisis must help speed up the Green Deal, accelerate the deployment of renewables and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. It is very important that there is this very broad political consensus –…

14 Sep

2021

FR Speech

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

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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Vice-President of the Commission, this is an exciting and unprecedented moment. Unprecedented, because this is the first time that we in the European Parliament have had the opportunity to say yes to the Commission's proposal to end the marketing of petrol and diesel cars, fossil fuel cars, to move to a new generation, including electric cars. This is the fir…