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MEPs set up enquiry to review pesticide policy implementation

Posted on 7th February 2018 by Linda Teague

The licensing of pesticides will be reviewed by MEPs following the establishment today of a special European Parliament committee. Sitting for nine months, committee members will examine the scientific evaluation of pesticides, including glyphosate, the world’s most commonly used weed killer which was relicensed for five years by the EU in December. Julie Girling MEP, lead member for the Conservative…

Parliament approves EU carbon trading reforms

Posted on 7th February 2018 by Linda Teague

Reforms to the EU’s Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) have been approved today by MEPs in Strasbourg. The ETS is the world’s first, and to date largest, installation-level cap-and trade system for cutting man-made greenhouse gas emissions. It puts a monetary value on carbon emissions, in order to better reflect the costs of climate change and the opportunities for low-carbon options…

Girling: Let’s link farm grants to cutting CO2

Posted on 7th February 2018 by Linda Teague

Campaiging MEP Julie Girling has joined a cross-party group of parliamentarians in calling for farming subsidies tied to activities that help combat climate change. Mrs Girling and three other South West politicians have written to the Environment Secretary, Michael Gove, urging him introduce the green grants. They call for subsidies based on: # Cutting greenhouse gas emissions, # Better capture…

European Parliament votes to ban electrocution of fish

Posted on 16th January 2018 by Linda Teague

Campaigning MEP Julie Girling has been successful today in moves in the European Parliament to ban so-called pulse fishing. Mrs Girling, MEP for the South West and Gibraltar, linked with colleagues in the Parliament’s Green, Liberal, Left and Socialist groups in a vote to end the destructive practice, which is blamed for creating deserts on the sea bed wherever it…

Girling leads call for ban on electrocution of seabed fish

Posted on 15th January 2018 by Linda Teague

Campaigning MEP Julie Girling is leading a move in the European Parliament tomorrow (Tuesday) to ban so-called pulse fishing. The technique kills fish and other marine life indiscriminately with a powerful electric shock. Mrs Girling, MEP for the South West and Gibraltar, has linked with colleagues in the European Parliament’s Green, Liberal, Left and Socialist groups to press for an…

A victory for science over scaremongering

Posted on 27th November 2017 by Linda Teague

Farmers can today breathe a sigh of relief after EU Member States voted to re-licence the weed killer Glyphosate for five years. While the compromise fell short of the 15 year renewal preferred by the British Government, this is a victory for farmers after increasing fears that an agreement would not be reached. ECR lead MEP Julie Girling, MEP for…

Girling hails big leap forward on horse welfare

Posted on 27th November 2017 by Linda Teague

Horse welfare campaigner Julie Girling has warmly welcomed moves to set up a multi-national steering group to improve equine protection and care. The British MEP, whose own comprehensive report on equine welfare was adopted by the European Parliament earlier this year, described the proposals for co-ordinated action across the EU by leading member states as signalling a “big leap forward”….

New EU Carbon-Trading Deal Struck Ahead of Bonn Climate Conference

Posted on 9th November 2017 by Linda Teague

EU lawmakers last night reached a provisional deal on the next phase of the EU Emission Trading System. After four “trilogue” negotiating sessions involving the EU Council under its Estonian Presidency, the EU Commission and European Parliament, agreement was reached on the fourth phase of the ETS, for the period after 2020. The system, which creates a market in permits…

Lets provide safe havens to tackle this “unspoken disgrace”

Posted on 26th October 2017 by Linda Teague

Campaigning MEP, Julie Girling, is calling on the European Parliament to investigate and put a stop to sexual abuse within the institution. And she is encouragding fellow MEPs to offer “safe havens” to complainants by giving them employment while their cases are investigated. Today she backed a cross-party resolution adopted by the Parliament in Strasbourg which condemned any predatory behaviour…

Banning glyphosate without evidence undermines the whole system

Posted on 24th October 2017 by Linda Teague

Banning popular weed killer glyphosate within five years and ignoring robust scientific evidence risks undermining the EU’s entire regulatory approval process for herbicides, warned ECR Environment Coordinator Julie Girling today. Having only last year recommended that glyphosate be renewed for a period of seven years, and despite presenting no new scientific evidence that it is unsafe to use, the European…

MEPs set up enquiry to review pesticide policy implementation

Parliament approves EU carbon trading reforms

Girling: Let’s link farm grants to cutting CO2

European Parliament votes to ban electrocution of fish

Girling leads call for ban on electrocution of seabed fish

A victory for science over scaremongering

Girling hails big leap forward on horse welfare

New EU Carbon-Trading Deal Struck Ahead of Bonn Climate Conference

Lets provide safe havens to tackle this “unspoken disgrace”

Banning glyphosate without evidence undermines the whole system

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