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EP Plenary session - UN Climate Change Conference 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan (COP29)

EP Plenary session - Resumption of session and order of business

ENVI - Confirmation hearing of Jessika ROSWALL, European Commissioner-designate for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy

ENVI - Voting session

German MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

EP Plenary session - Voting session

ENVI - Vote on sustainable textile

10th EU - Kosovo SAPC Meeting

COP27 UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt..

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Delara BURKHARDT in the EP in Brussels

The UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) takes place from 11 to 22 November 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan, gathering world leaders and climate experts to define a new global goal for climate finance and advance climate action. A delegation from the European Parliament will participate from 18 to 22 November to contribute to discussions on the EU's climate commitments and financial support for sustainable development worldwide. MEPs call on all countries to set a socially fair and equitable climate finance goal, aligned with the polluter-pays principle and incorporating diverse public, private, and innovative financial resources. The resolution further urges the EU to create a stable finance mechanism to ensure reliable support for its climate finance obligations, reinforcing the EU's leadership role in global climate action and the importance of predictable funding for effective climate policies.

UN COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan: MEPs debate

Jessika ROSWALL, the Commissioner-designate for Environment, Water Resilience, and a Competitive Circular Economy, is heard by the Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety (ENVI) Committee. Prior to her nomination for the post of Commissioner, Roswall was Sweden's minister for European affairs, from October 2022 to September 2024. In her new position, she oversees environmental policy, water resilience, and circular economy initiatives within the von der Leyen Commission II. Questions / Answers (Part 1 - Political groups coordinators).

Confirmation hearing of Jessika ROSWALL, Commissioner-designate for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy: Questions / Answers (Part 1 - Political groups coordinators)

The European Climate Law instructs the Commission to propose an EU climate target for 2040 at the latest within six months of the first global stocktake carried out under the Paris Agreement that took place at the COP28 in December 2023. Plenary debates proposals for setting the EU 2040 climate target, shortly after the Commission publishes a Communication and an impact assessment to initiate the process of setting a 2040 climate target. Second part of the MEPs debate

EU2040 climate target: MEPs debate (part 2)

MEPs debate the position of the Parliament for negotiations with EU countries on EU rules on new genomic techniques to make our food system more sustainable and resilient.

Plants obtained by certain genomic techniques and their food and feed: MEPs debate (part 1)

MEPs debate on the report by the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee to reduce the use of chemical plant protection products and to make them safer by at least 50%; they would also reduce the use of so-called “more hazardous products” by 65%, compared to the 2013-2017 average.

Sustainable use of plant protection products: MEPs debate

MEPs debate on Parliament’s demands for the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (COP28), taking place in Dubai from 30 November. The Parliament calls for action in view of the COP28, which takes stock of the progress made on implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement. MEPs want global financial contributions to be continued and increased, better efforts to protect, conserve and restore biodiversity and global targets to triple renewable energy and double energy efficiency by 2030. They also call for an end to all direct and indirect fossil fuel subsidies.

UN Climate Change Conference 2023 in Dubai (COP28): MEPs debate

Arrested by the morality police on 13 September 2022 for allegedly ignoring Iran’s strict veiling laws, Jina Mahsa Amini died in a Tehran hospital three days later following physical abuse while in custody. Her death sparked protests that spread around the country with at least 500 people killed after the Iranian authorities clamped down on the demonstrations with brutal force. MEPs discuss the situation in Iran and mark Amini’s death that sparked months of mass protests in the county.

Iran: one year after the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini: MEPs debate (part 2)

MEPs debate the EU’s international commitments and the risks of compromising the EU’s green transition. The European Green Deal was presented by the EC in 2019. Its purpose is to transform the EU into a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy, ensuring zero net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, economic growth decoupled from resource consumption, and with no one and nowhere left behind. Parliament debates the risks of compromising the EU’s green transition and the EU’s international commitments including those under the Paris Agreement on climate change and the UN Biodiversity Agreement, the latter of which seeks to protect 30% of the earth’s lands, oceans, coastal areas and inland waters. MEPs debate (part 1)

Council and Commission statements - Delivering on the Green Deal: risk of compromising the EU path to the green transition and its international commitments, MEPs debate (part 1)

MEPs vote on the following topics: European Parliament/European Central Bank (ECB) Interinstitutional Agreement: structuring the practices for interaction in the area of central banking, Salvatore DE MEO (EPP, IT); Geographical Indications for wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products, Paolo DE CASTRO (S&D, IT); Arrangement with the Republic of Iceland on the modalities of its participation in the European Asylum Support Office, Jeroen LENAERS (EPP, NL); EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles, Delara BURKHARDT (S&D, DE); Sexual harassment in the EU and MeToo evaluation, Michal ŠIMEČKA (Renew Europe, SK); Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, including disinformation, Sandra KALNIETE (EPP, LV).

Voting session: EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles, Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, including disinformation

MEPs from the ENVI (Environment, Public Health and Food Safety) Committee vote on the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles. The European Parliament calls for binding EU legislation to guarantee that fashion is not produced at the cost of environmental destruction and human lives. Requirements should be set that prevent unsold clothes from being shredded or sent to landfill just because they are no longer in fashion or the warehouse is full. Only textiles that meet a minimum standard of sustainability requirements should be imported into the EU or produced within the EU. Extracts from the vote in committee and statement by Delara BURKHARDT (S&D, DE), Rapporteur.

Vote on EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles: extracts from the vote and statement by Delara BURKHARDT (S&D, DE), Rapporteur

MEPs debate on the recent IPCC report on Climate Change, in particular they discuss a call for urgent additional climate action.

IPCC report on Climate Change - a call for urgent additional action: MEPs debate

MEPs debate on a new law obliging companies to ensure products sold in the EU do not come from deforested land anywhere in the world. The new regulation, already agreed with the EU member states, helps fight climate change and biodiversity loss by preventing deforestation related to EU consumption of products from cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm-oil, soya, wood, rubber, charcoal and printed paper.

Deforestation Regulation: MEPs debate

MEPs debate and vote on their recommendations for the next cycle of social, economic and budgetary coordination between member states, known as the European semester. MEPs debate

European Semester: MEPs debate

MEPs debate new rules on land use, land use change and forestry, member states’ emission reductions and the revision of the Market Stability Reserve. Following a debate on Monday, Parliament will vote on Tuesday on the deals reached with EU countries in late 2022 on three pieces of legislation that are part of the “Fit for 55 in 2030 package”. This is the EU’s plan to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels in line with the European Climate Law.

Joint debate - Outcome of the negotiations on Fit for 55: MEPs debate

Parliament assesses the results of the UN Climate Change Conference COP27, which took place in Sharm el Sheik from 6-19 November. MEPs evaluate the outcome of the meeting in Egypt in particular looking at progress towards the Paris agreement objective of limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and aiming for 1.5 degrees.

Outcome of the COP 27: MEPs debate

Plenary quiz the Czech Presidency and the Commission about guaranteeing solidarity and burden sharing in the management of migration flows into Europe. Third part of the debate.

Key debate - The need for a European solution on asylum and migration including search and rescue: MEPs debate (part 3)

MEPs discuss with EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell how to respond to the increasing crackdown on protests in Iran.The demonstrations, which started in mid-September after a young woman, Mahsa Amini, was killeddied in the custody of ‘morality police’ for breaking strict hijab rules, have now gone on for nearly two months.

EU response to the increasing crackdown on protests in Iran: MEPs debate

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). DAY 4.

EP delegation to COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt: DAY 4 - meeting with Maldives representatives, statements by Jessica POLFJÄRD (EPP,SE) and by Bas EICKHOUT (Greens/EFA,NL), Chair of the delegation; meeting with China's delegation

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