4th EU-Bosnia and Herzegovina Stabitisation and Association Parliamentary Committee (SAPC)

EP Plenary session - Council and Commission statements - State of play of the corporate sustainability due diligence directive

EP Plenary session - Commission statement - EU climate risk assessment, taking urgent action to improve security and resilience in Europe

EP Plenary session - Substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims (Green Claims Directive)

EP Plenary session - Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed

EP Plenary session - Debates on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (Rule 144) Latest attacks against women, women's rights defenders in Iran, and its arbitrary detention of EU nationals

EP Plenary session - Packaging and packaging waste

EP Plenary session - UN Climate Change Conference 2023 in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) (COP28)

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ENVI - Vote on pesticides, carbon removals, glyphosate, CO2

EP Plenary session - Statement by the VPC/HR - Iran: one year after the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini

ENVI Committee - Minute of silence, order of the day and votes

A delegation of 14 Members from the ENVI and ITRE committees are in Sharm El-Sheikh between 14 and 18 November to participate to the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27). Extracts from the third day of the EP delegation: meeting with US and Japan delegations, meeting with Bertrand PICCARD, Chairman of the Solar Impulse Foundation, statement by Peter LIESE (EPP, DE), Vice-chair of the EP delegation.

EP delegation to COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt: meeting with Bertrand PICCARD, Chairman of the Solar Impulse Foundation and ambiance shots

A delegation of 14 Members from the ENVI and ITRE committees are in Sharm El-Sheikh between 14 and 18 November to participate to the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27). Extracts from the arrival of the delegation, ambiance shots and statement by Bas EICKHOUT, president of the delegation.

EP delegation to COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt: arrival of the delegation, ambiance shots, statements by Bas EICKHOUT (Greens/EFA, NL) and Petros KOKKALIS (The Left, EL)

MEPs debate on the official start of accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania last July and to call on the EU to grant visa liberalisation to Kosovo. They are also likely to urge Serbia to align with the EU’s restrictive measures and policy towards Russia.

EU-Western Balkans relations in light of the new enlargement package: MEPs debate (part 2)

MEPs are set to call on all countries to step up their 2030 climate targets before the COP27 in Egypt, to limit global warming in line with the Paris agreement. second part of the debate.

Oral question - UN Climate Change Conference 2022 in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt (COP27): MEPs debate (part 2)

MEPs and EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep BORRELL discuss the countrywide protests against the Islamic regime in Iran after the nationwide demonstrations were triggered by the death in Tehran on 16 September of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s morality police, who assaulted her for, they claimed, incorrectly wearing her hijab. Third part of the debate.

The death of Mahsa AMINI and the repression of women's rights protesters in Iran: MEPs debate (part 3)

In light of this summer’s devastating droughts and forest fires across Europe, MEPs discuss how to increase EU efforts to fight climate change. In a debate. MEPs quiz the Commission and Council on the EU’s immediate support to national and regional authorities, including through the activation of the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, following severe droughts and forest fires, which hit several European countries this summer. These disasters caused loss of life and have had a devastating impact on people’s homes and livelihoods, as well as on sectors like farming.

Consequences of drought, fire, and other extreme weather phenomena: increasing EU's efforts to fight climate change: MEPs debate (part 2/2)

This strategy will help the EU shift to a climate-neutral, circular economy where products are designed to be more durable, reusable, repairable, recyclable and energy-efficient. It aims to ensure that the textile industry recovers from the COVID-19 crisis in a sustainable way by making it more competitive, applying circular economy principles to production, products, consumption, waste management and secondary raw materials and directing investment, research and innovation.

The need for an ambitious EU Strategy for sustainable textiles: MEPs debate

On 10 February, the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) adopted its position on proposed new rules governing the entire battery product life cycle, from design to end-of-life. MEPs are set to demand stronger sustainability and performance requirements and more stringent targets for waste collection, recycling efficiency and material recovery. Second part of the debate.

Batteries and waste batteries: MEPs debate (Part 2/2)

Following the deal reached in Glasgow at the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), MEPs debate the outcome of the negotiations. Second part of the debate.

Outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow: MEPs debate (part 2/3)

The Environment Committee of the European Parliament debates with Virginijus SINKEVIČIUS, Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, about the proposed new legislation that the European Parliament called for in order to stop EU-driven global deforestation and forest degradation by obliging companies placing products on the EU market to carry out due diligence. Extracts from the exchange of views and statement by rapporteur Delara BURKHARDT (S&D,DE).

European Parliament's legislative proposal to reduce the risk of deforestation/forest degradation: extracts from exchange of views between ENVI Committee and Virginijus Sinkevičius Commissioner for Environment, statement by rapporteur Delara BURKHARD

European Parliament's legislative proposal to reduce the risk of deforestation/forest degradation: extracts from exchange between ENVI Committee and Virginijus Sinkevičius Commissioner for Environment, statement by rapporteur Delara BURKHARDT (S&D,DE

Parliament present plans on how Europe can produce healthier food while ensuring food security, a fair income for farmers and reducing agriculture’s environmental footprint: MEPs debate. MEPs are expected to welcome the Farm to Fork strategy, presented by the Commission in May 2020, while underlining the importance of producing healthy, animal friendly, high quality and affordable diets to European consumers. They are expected to demand that farmers must earn a fair share of the profit from sustainably produced food. Second part of the debate.

A Farm to Fork Strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally friendly food system: MEPs debate (part 2/2)

General atmosphere prior to the debate on the State of the European Union (SOTEU 2021), during the plenary session (13-16 September 2021) in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Ambiance shots in the Chamber. Ursula VON DER LEYEN, President of the EC, invited Beatrice VIO (aka Bebe VIO) - Italian wheelchair fencer, world and paralympic champion, to attend the debate.

State of the European Union 2021 debate: general atmosphere prior to the debate

During the plenary session (13-16 September 2021) in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, MEPs participate on the joint debate on the natural disasters in Europe and possible measures to be taken to support countries and regions affected by natural disasters this summer.

Joint debate - Natural disasters in Europe: MEPs debate (Part 1/2)

A month after the publication of the latest IPCC report confirming climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying, Parliament during the plenary session debate the “Fit for 55” package with Council and Commission. The European Climate Law adopted in June 2021 increases the EU’s target for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 from 40% to at least 55%, compared to 1990 level. MEPs debate (part 3)

Presentation of the Fit for 55 package after the publication of the IPCC report: MEPs debate (part 3)

MEPs discuss the Fit for 2030 Package, which aims to align climate and energy policies with the new objectives of the European Climate Law to the EP Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI). The package comprises, inter alia, legislative proposals for the revision of the EU ETS and for a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), amendments to the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Directives, as well as a revision of the CO2 standards for cars, LULUCF and Effort Sharing Regulations.

Exchange of views on the European Green Deal - Fit For 55 in 2030 Package: MEPs debate

During the plenary session (23-24 June 2021) in the European Parliament in Brussels, MEPs debate on the new EU climate law on Thursday, which raises the EU’s 2030 emissions reduction target to at least 55% with climate neutrality by 2050. MEPs debate 2/4

European Climate Law: MEPs debate 2/4

During the plenary session (23-24 June 2021) in the European Parliament in Brussels, MEPs debate on the 2019-2020 Reports on Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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