Satu Hassi in
international media
04/06/08 Euractiv
Parliament and Council set to clash over CO2 effort sharing
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03/06/08 ENDS Europe DAILY
MEP outlines EU climate target-sharing plans
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21/04/08 New Europe
The lobby against lobbyists
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25/01/08 European Parliament: Energy and Climate Change debate
MEP's reactions (video, wmv-file)
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22/01/08 Grüne: EU-Klimaschutzstrategie der Kommission unzureichend
Die Grünen im Europaparlament halten das für (den morgigen) Mittwoch angekündigte Klimaschutzpaket der EU-Kommission für unzureichend.
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22/01/08 Die EU kennt kein Energiesparen
Die Europäische Kommission stellt heute ihr Klimaschutzpaket vor, um dessen Details bis zum Schluss gerungen wird.
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01/02/07 Finns secure five vice-chair posts at Europarliament
Finnish Euro-MPs clinched five vice-chair posts at the European Parliament when the 20 parliamentary committees were reshuffled halfway through the legislative period on Wednesday and Thursday.
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10/01/07 EU UNVEILS ENERGY STRATEGY: Brussels Bows to Global Warming
Arid deserts in Spain, winters with no snow and fewer tourists in the Mediterranean. All that will happen if the world doesn't act, the EU said on Wednesday.
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31/01/07 Commission wobbles on fight against climate change
The European Commission has proposed stricter standards on transport fuels in its fight against climate change. But critics call the move a diversion..
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29/11/06 EU demands cuts in national emission plans
The European commission has told member states to cut the number of CO2 emission credits they will dole out to industry.
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20/11/06 EU urged to take the lead on climate change
The EU has been urged to take a more aggressive stance on carbon emissions in the wake of “disappointing” climate change talks in Nairobi.
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24/10/06 Up in the air: EU ambient air quality standards
In September 2005, the Commission presented a strategy to reduce air pollution in Europe, targeting five main pollutants.
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09/10/06 ETRA, ECF and Green MEPs demonstrate climate-friendly mobility
If the current transport trend is not reversed, the European Union will not meet the commitments under the Kyoto-Protocol. That is why the European Greens believe that we must change our ways of getting around, rather than allowing climate to change.
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29/09/06 Straßburg entschärft Feinstaub-Richtlinie
Nach zahlreichen Verstößen auch deutscher Großstädte hat das EU-Parlament einen Kompromiss vorgeschlagen, der neue Grenzwerte für die Schadstoffbelastung vorschreibt, deren Einhaltung aber Übergangsfristen und Ausnahmen zulässt.
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28/09/06 Europe waters down air directive
The European Parliament appears to have contradicted itself this week by calling for more to be done to protect air quality and then voting to scrap parts of an important piece of legislation which would do just that.
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26/09/06 EU executive calls legislative moves to weaken anti-pollution proposals unacceptable
The EU executive on Tuesday said that legislative moves to water down its plans to tackle air pollution were unacceptable.
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26/09/06 Los críticos dicen que la Eurocámara debilita normas de polución
El Parlamento Europeo aprobó el martes nuevas normas para frenar la polución atmosférica, pero los ecologistas y el órgano ejecutivo de la UE acusaron a los legisladores de restar fuerza a propuestas más ambiciosas.
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15/05/06 Emission shortfall "won't alter permit guidance"
The European commission will not alter its permit allocation guidance for the second phase of the EU emission trading scheme despite the surplus of allowances in many countries in the scheme's first year, officials said on Monday.
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20/04/2006 Groups mark Chernobyl accident anniversary
Environmental groups and anti-nuclear politicians
are marking the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl
disaster with a wave of verbal attacks on nuclear power.
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19/04/2006 Role of U.N. Nuke Agency Called "Schizophrenic"
..."The task of nuclear arms proliferation seems to be growing rapidly," said Satu Hassi, a member of the European Parliament and former Finnish environment minister, in a statement...
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14/04/2006 Caught between global warming and an energy crisis, Blair looks north for answers
...The most vociferous opponent of nuclear energy is Satu Hassi, Finland's former environment minister...
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11/04/2006 Former Environmental Ministers call on UN to reform IAEA mandate and End the Nuclear Age
"The risk of nuclear arms proliferation seems to be growing rapidly.
To be able to function effectively, the IAEA should end its schizophrenic role...
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23/03/2006 Bellona: European Commission reacts to new
Russian NGO law
MEPs Staes and Hassi asked the EC whether “in view
of the estimations that the new registration regime will
make it difficult for the NGOs to receive foreign
donations, has the Commission evaluated the impact of
the new law on the NGOs´ ability to receive EU funding
aimed at projects in third countries.”
16/02/2006 Agence Europe:
EU celebrates first
anniversary of Kyoto Protocol, eyes riveted on
additional measures to be taken and international regime
to be negotiated for post-2012
Satu Hassi (Finland)
pointed out that to restrict temperature increase to two
degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, an 80%
reduction in greenhouse gas emissions would be required
by 2050.
29/11/2005 vwd: Europa-Grüne für verbindliche
Klimaschutzziele in Montreal
Zum
Auftakt der zwölftägigen UN-Klimakonferenz in Montreal
fordern die Europa-Grünen verbindliche
CO2-Reduktionsziele ab 2012. "Weltweit steigen die
Treibhausgasemissionen anstatt zurückzugehen", sagte die
finnische Europaabgeordnete der Grünen, Satu Hassi. Sie
nimmt als Vertreterin des Europaischen Parlaments (EP)
an der UN-Konferenz vom 28. November bis 9. Dezember
teil.
28/11/2005
Dow Jones, vwd:
Grüne für
verbindliche Klimaschutzziele in Montreal
Die
UN-Vertragsstaaten müssten sich auf einen
Verhandlungsrahmen festlegen, um die Treibhausgase nach
Auslaufen des Kyoto-Klimaschutzporotokolls ab 2012
weiter zu reduzieren. "Sonst verpassen wir die
Gelegenheit, den Planeten zu retten", warnte Hassi.
08/10/2005 Europe Information : CHEMICALS: EP COMMITTEE
SHIFTS REACH FOCUS BACK TOWARDS HEALTH AND THE
ENVIRONMENT
The
EPP-ED, described by Satu Hassi (Greens/EFA, Finland) as
"the voice of industry within the EP", invoked Article
47 of Parliament's rules of procedure (enhanced
co-operation procedure) permitting it to table before
the plenary as they stand more pro-industry amendments
approved by the Internal Market and Industry-Research
Committees. There is little doubt that the industrial
lobby, which has already worked tirelessly on this
dossier, will double up its efforts over the next six
weeks, which in any case promise a feast of political
bargaining.
14/06/2005 (Agence Europe):
European food safety Agency increases in
power and will be totally transferred to Parma in Autumn,
affirms director Geoffrey Podge
Satu Hassi: "The EFSA
seems to have a much more favourable opinion of GMOs
than most Member States" and was surprised to note
certain contradictions (three Member State wanting to
ban Syngenta's BT 176 due to its antibiotic-resistant
gene; in July 2004, the EFSA said that this gene was to
be avoided, but said that it raised no problems for this
corn. Where's the logic in this?).
12/4/2005 Environment
Daily : MEPs escalate EU RoHS exemption row
The European parliament has taken a further step towards legal action against the
European Commission over exemptions from a future EU ban on dangerous substances in
electrical and electronic equipment manufacture.
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17/3/2005 Environment
Daily: Drinks pack deposits "bad for the environment"
Introducing deposits on one-way drinks packaging where kerbside collection schemes already exist inflates both costs and environmental impacts,
according to a study from steel packaging association Apeal.
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16/3/2005 Environment Daily:
Parliamentary environment committee
round-up
The European parliament's environment committee met in Brussels this week. Proceedings were dominated by a debate on the Reach chemical policy reform (EED 14/03/05) and a vote on the draft energy-using products directive (EED 15/03/05).
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9/2/2005 Environment
Daily: EU shows caution on future climate targets
The EU should await the outcome of further international talks before deciding what climate emission reductions it wants to see achieved by a second Kyoto protocol commitment period, environment commissioner Stavros Dimas said on Wednesday.
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3/2/2005 Environment
Daily: MEPs tackle sulphur, energy, eco-design issues
The European parliament's environment committee held a busy session on 2-3 February. As well as a policy debate on the EU's Reach chemical reform (see separate article, this issue), it discussed draft laws on sulphur in marine fuels, end-use energy efficiency and eco-design of energy-using products.
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25/1/2005 An
International Seminar on Chechnya; Kavkaz center:
Negotiations - the only way out
An International Seminar on Chechnya was arranged in the Finnish House of Parliament, Helsinki, January 21st.
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21/1/2005 Ecosilencer:
Green MEP seeks stricter controls as ship sulphur
emissions spiral
Report recommends reinstating 0.5% limit - but allows alternative means of meeting these limits
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17/1/2005 Friends of Europe in association with
Volvo: Fuelling tomorrow's road transport: from well to
wheel
Carbon-based fuels in transport have driven economic development. However, an increasing
amount of data points to negative effects....
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21/9/2004 Environment Daily: "Slim chances" of new
global climate deal
The prospects for global agreement on further binding cuts in greenhouse gases beyond 2012 are looking slim, Dutch environment minister Pieter van Geel told MEPs on Monday.
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25/2/2004 Eurosource:
Kyoto protocol wobbles spread to Finland
Unless the Kyoto protocol on climate change enters into force soon Finland should campaign within the EU for renegotiation of national greenhouse gas limitation targets, the country's industry minister Mauri Pekkarinen has said.
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24/5/2002 Dagens Nyheter:
Finländskt ja till mer kärnkraft
Finland går in för mer kärnkraft. Riksdagen beslutade på fredagen med klar majoritet (107 - 92) att ge grönt ljus för en femte kärnkraftsreaktor. Reaktorn ska enligt planerna tas i bruk 2008-2009.
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15/07/2002 Row n-gulfs Finland
Environmentalists see red as Finnish lawmakers give a green light to yet another nuclear reactor
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