Results
Talk is cheap, it's votes that count. Click on the different issues below to find out how MEPs voted in these important votes on key issues for the Greens (economic, social and environmental policy, democracy and civil liberties among others). Once you have chosen the issue, you can choose to see how a whole political group voted or how MEPs from the same party/group in your country voted.
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Description
Tackling climate change
Avoiding dangerous global warming
The European Parliament adopted a report on the EU's future climate policy in February 2009, setting out the EP's position on what the EU position should be. The UN IPCC, the scientific advisory body on climate change whose findings have been accepted by the EU, has stated that we need to limit global warming to 2 degrees if we are to avoid dangerous climate change. Therefore, all EU climate policies should be made to be consistent with this limit. This means delivering emissions reductions domestically and not relying on external offsets. The Greens tabled an amendment calling for the EU negotiating position in the international climate negotiations to be consistent with limiting warming to 2 degrees and for the role of offsetting to be marginal to EU emissions reduction efforts. This amendment was rejected.
See the list of how all MEPs voted on Roll-call vote 6 in the Florenz report (4th May 2009)
Key
Outcome explanation **
Supported the necessary steps to avoid dangerous global warming by delivering domestic emissions reductions
Some MEPs supported the necessary steps to avoid dangerous global warming by delivering domestic emissions reductions, others did not
Had no opinion whether EU policies should be designed to avoid dangerous global warming by delivering domestic emissions reductions
Some MEPs thought EU climate policies should not reflect the reality necessary to prevent dangerous global warming, others had no opinion
Thought EU climate policies should not reflect the reality necessary to prevent dangerous global warming
Not present / Did not vote / No MEPs match selection
Group name *
| Conservative | EPP-ED |
| Socialist | PES |
| Liberals | ALDE |
| Greens/EFA | Greens/EFA |
| Communist | GUE/NGL |
| UEN-right | UEN |
| Eurosceptic | Ind-Dem |
| Non-alligned | NI |