Simon Clark 
How do the parties standing in the 2024 European Parliament election compare in their climate policies?
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I look through the manifestos and the recent voting records of the seven political groups in the European Parliament, and assess their stance on the environment.
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Dutch translation by Victor Goossens, Nele Reyniers and Kevin Csellak.
REFERENCES
1. https://caneurope.org/eu-parliament-scoreboard-2024/
2. https://caneurope.org/content/uploads/2024/04/EU-Parliament-Scoreboard_2024.pdf
3. https://ipolitics.bloomassociation.org/en
4. https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en
5. https://www.eppgroup.eu/what-we-do
6. https://www.desmog.com/2024/02/08/revealed-the-climate-denial-network-behind-classic-astroturf-farmers-campaign/
7. https://www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu/bringthebillsdown
8. https://pes.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2024_PES_Manifesto_EN.pdf
9. https://www.reneweuropegroup.eu/what-we-stand-for/investing-in-a-sustainable-future
10. https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/what-we-stand-for/our-vision
11. https://europeangreens.eu/the-courage-to-put-planet-and-people-first-our-green-and-social-deal-for-europe/
12. https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/letter/ambitious-post-2030-union-climate-targets
13. https://www.idgroup.eu/members
14. https://institutdelors.eu/en/publications/the-european-green-deal-in-the-face-of-rising-radical-right-wing-populism/
15. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/far-right-afd-lead-candidate-eu-election-rejects-green-deal
16. https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/04/30/how-europes-energy-crisis-is-feeding-the-election-campaign
17. https://left.eu/who-we-are/
18. https://www.european-left.org/2024-eu-election-manifesto/
19. https://euandi.eu/en/survey/european-elections.html
20. https://www.carbonbrief.org/eu-election-2024-what-the-manifestos-say-on-energy-and-climate-change/
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How do the parties compare on climate change in the European election of 2024? Who should I vote for to improve climate ambition in the EU? I compare the stances of the EPP, the S&D, Reform Europe, the Greens, Identity and Democracy, the ECR, and the Left.
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As climate activists are really just communists, I really need to question the meaning of "environmental justice"
Great and informative video. Commenting to give it more visibility. It is easy to forget that democracy is dependent on educated and informed decisions by the people.
Dude, im going to be honest. Though i agree climate change is probably the most important issue of today, theres only so much of this type of media that i can take.
Just veing honest i think ive come to a point where i feel like im obligated to watching your videos, rather than actually wanting to watch them. Again, i agree with the message, but i just feel like you also have more to offer
Thanks a lot, for the video and the references for where I can search more info ! Also, for listing the national parties involved in each group you were speaking of.
I find European elections quite confusing, because we're voting for national parties but nowhere on their sites, programs, interviews, are mentioned the European party or group they're a part of (at least here in France, maybe that's different in other countries) so that makes it more difficult to find reliable info on their European real policies and track record.
I'm happy to learn the Left is nearly as good on environmental issues as the Green though, 'cause I agree on their stances on social issues and the need to get rid of capitalism (and to reform the EU to get to that).
There is a nuance that has to explained about Renew. This group only emerged since the last European parliament elections and its a fusion of ALDE (mostly liberal parties) and Macron's Renaissance from France.
Macron is obviously pro nuclear because that's what France wants to do. Most of the other parties are technologically agnostic.
Graph for the epp: "We don't care about anything in this 7 categories, just give us your bribes"
I wish I was joking.
I wish you mentioned which eu group is part of, the party you are going to vote for.
I'm a bit sceptical on the very high scores for the far left group. What happens when green objectives conflict with socialist ones? Or I guess more specifically, what happens when realistic, effective emissions-reducing policies conflict with socialist ones. Even if the partisans in question dearly wish (and insist) it were not so, inevitably those things can be in tension.
Say, for example, there is a bit of legislation around solar panels. One option is to have lax rules, let people put them up wherever and however they want, another stipulates that they have to be made in Europe, you have to get your neighbours/local gov't permission and a whole bunch of safety protections need to be in place to ensure the safety of (unionised) installation workers.
The former would probably result in significantly more installations, but is less socialist. That's a specific hypothetical, but I'm guessing those kind of trade-offs exist everywhere. Given so many environmentalist organisations are explicitly left-wing as well as environmentalist (that's basically what I read 'Environmental Justice' as), I always second guess their perspectives on what's actually 'green', especially if the goal is narrowly 'reduce GHG emissions as quickly as possible'.
I'm Irish, we voted on Friday. I voted with climate change as my number 1 priory.
The right wing people are worse, but I'm also really sick of the far left people hopping onto the climate change train to push their ideologies. They behave badly at protests, they don't have good arguments during speeches, they get super hung up on singular issues rather than large scale change and noone has time for their supposed communist utopia to appear and save the world.
That was helpful. Great video.
Problem is that it seems that once you care about climate change, you must also want import endless amounts of immigrants without regard for what the system can handle, and/or care more about the 2% trans people than the 98% of the rest, hate freedom and democracy, etc. The woke crazies in the US is really spreading their extremism well. At least here we have multiple parties, which makes people not go as extreme… but it's still concerning.
deep heavy sigh 1 day after the election
Watching this after the elections I'm pretty disappointed the biggest party for the European elections here in Belgium is the far right Vlaams Belang, which is in the worst scoring group in this video..
At least I'm proud that the city I live in had a lot of votes for the green party, along with the left and S&D
Here are the results:
The protectors: Lost 22 seats
The procrastinators: Lost 22 seats
The prehistoric thinkers: Gained 22 seats
Good luck everyone. Dress for warm weather, do not inhale and hope you know how to swim
love how even the most bare bones climate policy is too radical for right wingers. owning the left by stripping your future away bit by bit. genius
Simon, Simon, Simon: Your web chart misses to very important issues, population sustainability and food security. No one talks about these because it requires culling the rabbits.
Ukrain war and migration are the big themes in Germany.
Climate change kinda too but only in that it's too expensive.
I wish I could show them all Your videos. But next problem: Bad English listening skills.
When u mention a series of videos on elections, which other countries do u plan on covering aside from the UK?
Add solar maximum and your climate models deteriorate
The EU policies are complete nonsense!!
@SimonClark Why should I trust those two climatepolicy judge organisations that the green group is the most green when they don't want nuclear energy? I cannot.