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The GREAT SUMMARY on EU climate emergency and COP25!

Alright, the EU parliament as voted, so let's have a look at what happened, who voted for what and what the results are 📜🔍👀

It's been covered (e.g. by Erik) already but here is some extra info 🧵
The parliament voted on MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the 2019 UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid, Spain (COP 25).

There were two controversial paragraphs:
§ 52 that allowed the European Investment Bank to continue funding of fossil gas
§ 56 that phased out clean nuclear energy
Luckily, some MEPs aren't complete climate kooks and instead wrote some amendments for those paragraphs.

For § 52 there were 5 amendments in total:
Am 3, 10, 63, 64 and 4

and they looked like this:
... and here is Am 4

(BTW, you can find all the amendments in this link 🔗)
europarl.europa.eu/plenary/sv/mot…
For § 56 there was one amendment, Am 38, which looked like this:
The order which things are voted on can be found in the indicative voting list.

It can be found on this link
europarl.europa.eu/sed/doc/voting…
and the parts we're interested in look like this:
Parliament voted on amendments for § 52 and Am 3 and Am 4 won.

It looked something like this📺
Then they voted for Am 38 to be amended to § 52.

This was a controversial matter in parliament, that looked a little bit like this 💙⚡️⚛️
The final adopted text for these paragraphs looks like this.

Numbers change because of changes made, so now:
§ 52 -> § 54 and § 55
§ 56 -> § 59

You can find the (preliminary) resolution text that was voted for here:
europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document…
All in all, not a bad result 😃

No direct allowance for funding fossil fuel and no phasing out of nuclear!
I call that a good day in climate politics 😎

But we're not finished yet!
The fact is amendment 38 is a very controversial matter, with France and Germany being split on the matter regarding nuclear's inclusion as sustainable in the EU taxonomy on sustainable finance.

euractiv.com/section/energy…
The adoption of Am 38 was so controversial that 46 green MEPs, previously in favour, voted against the resolution and only 15 voted in favour.

Some climate emergency, right?
spiegel.de/politik/auslan…
Of course, this is nothing new.

German politicians have worked to close down nuclear for a long time while being in favour or neutral to increased fossil fuel use ever since former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder.

You can read more here:
This was a close call and I think we just made it by the skin of our teeth!🦷

That was way too close so let's look at who voted for what!

That can be found in the minutes of proceedings on page 126:
europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document…
(1) In favour
(2) Against
(3) Abstained and corrections
Let's remember to hold politicians accountable!

Find your MEP in the list and if they voted the way you wanted, let them know ❤️

If they didn't, well then you absolutely need to let them know! 😡✏️📨
@FredrikDehlin put together the results for Swedish MEPs. (although one MEP, @KarinKarlsbro corrected her vote to be in favour of the amendment).

I also know that almost all Polish MEPs voted in favour.

How did your MEPs vote? 🤔

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Earlier today I covered the EU motion for resolution on "climate emergency" for the COP25 meeting.

The debate is now over and you can watch the it here for yourself:

europarl.europa.eu/ep-live/sv/ple…

Let's look at what was said in summary 👇
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On Thursday they will vote on it.

In the current form that means trouble, so I need your help!
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