Special Interests
Environment
Struan is a keen believer in working with all agencies to protect the environment.
As President of the European Parliament's Climate Change, Biodiversity & Sustainable Development Intergroup (the largest intergroup in the Parliament with over 150 MEP members), Struan frequently addresses international conferences on bio-diversity, marine conservation and climate change.
His interest in the protection of peat bogs is well documented, as is his interest in and objectivity about pesticide reform.
In a bid to reduce carbon emissions, Struan has voiced support for the introduction of carbon cards with individuals becoming environmental stakeholders.
Struan is a supporter of Genetically Modified foods believing they play a key role in solving hunger problems in developing countries as global food production is declining as climate change takes hold.
Struan is a member of the Environment Committee.
- EU must overhaul fisheries eco-labelling, CFP rapporteur will say
- Preservation and Restoration of Blue Carbon Ecosystems
- MEP objects to GSK turbines for Montrose
- MEP writes to challenge Whitelee wind farm demolition plans
- Brussels Briefing January 2012
- Debate on the Bové Report on The Farm Input Supply Chain: Structure & Implications
- Debate on the Klass report on the placing on the market of biocidal products
- Scots MEP seeks industry views on key CFP reform paper
- Common Fisheries Policy - CMO Reform
- Blue Carbon is the key to climate change
- 'Betrayal of Trust: Scotland's Looming Energy Crisis'
- International Blue Carbon Policy Workshop - Keynote speech
- MEP to urge communities to confront local politicians over wind farm developments
- Final curtain for Brussels fisheries pantomime?
- EC days at sea announcement “abrupt and inexplicable”, says Scots MEP
- Brussels Briefing November 2011
- National Follies
- Hydro-Power Stations Do Not Consume Water
- Scots windfarm critics set for national rally
- Windfarms are “national follies”, says Euro MP
- Brussels Briefing October 2011
- Key Scots interest raised at high level Morocco fisheries talks in Gibraltar
- Tough questions for European Commission test legal waters of CFP reform
- Wind farm critique available in e-book format
- CAP proposals are a backward step, says Struan Stevenson MEP
- Questions on Common Fisheries Policy
- UK Aquaculture Forum - Opening Remarks by Struan Stevenson MEP
- CFP reform will help EU aquaculture expand globally, MEP tells UK industry leaders
- The Renewables Rape of Britain
- Anti-colagulant rodenticides
- Video - The Renewables Rape of Britain
- Debate on Rio+20 Earth Summit
- Brussels Briefing September 2011
- Struan Stevenson MEP backs WWF’s More Fish Campaign
- Speech at opening of the International Year of Forests
- Crumbling regimes teach global nuclear lesson
- Time for an honest debate on wind renewables
- Adapting to global demand for whisky galore
- Euro MP in Ayr to see sustainable future of DIY retail
- Euro MP joins opposition to desecration of Dava Moor
- Scots MEP’s surprise over “deliberately misleading” interpretation of renewables remarks
- Tory MEP joins campaign against industrial wind turbines
- The Renewable Rape of Scotland
- Euro MPs see eco-friendly opportunities for Scotch whisky
- "Disappointing" and "Modest" CFP reform condemned by senior Fisheries Committee MEP
- East Dunbartonshire cycle co-op comes to Brussels
- East Dunbartonshire cycle co-op comes to Brussels
- The Windsor Declaration: Key Principles for CFP Reform
- ECR group adopts fisheries reform programme
- Scots MEP to propose 10 point plan for CFP reform
- Briefing - You Are What You Eat
- You are what you eat? Public question time & debate
- Star-power no substitue for common sense on discards
- You are what you eat? Public question time debate
- Struan Stevenson - Tajikistan Visit - Address to Majilis, 30 May 2011
- Debate on EIB Annual Report: Speech by Struan Stevenson MEP
- "Stop Euro funds for wind farms" says Scots MEP
- Brussels Briefing March 2011
- The Great Windfarm Revolt
- Euro ban could blanket Scotland in bracken
- New report makes case for Beauly-Denny undergrounding
- 'Plundering Vikings' wreck mackerel deal
- Fresh Water - The Essence of Life
- The Aral Sea environmental tragedy
- Stage set for world’s first ‘eco war’?
- Fuel-ish EU oil drill moratorium defeated
- Hydrogen technology 'the next Industrial Revolution'
- The Great Windfarm Scam
- The Aral Sea environmental tragedy
- 'Dolly the Sheep' off the menu thanks to clone ban
- European Biodiversity in a Global Context
- European Biodiversity in a Global Context
- MEPs must abandon 'crazy' rat poison plan
- Cheeky Icelanders pushing their luck on fishing rights
- Scottish fishermen must be compensated for EC blunder
- EU must overhaul GM legislation
- Scotland could lose out as EU softens stance on GM crops
- Central Asia - an environmental cauldron
- EU stalling leaves two million seabirds dead
- Kazakhstan: putting the sparkle back in to the OSCE
- February's Brussels Briefing
- 2010 brings about new challenges
- Scotland’s landscape is priceless: we must protect it or lose it
- Energy Efficiency Action Plan for Scotland Consultation
- The Royal Society of Edinburgh Inquiry into Facing up to Climate Change
- Scots Tory MEP welcomes CEA's consideration of building nuclear power stations
- Scotland's peat bogs could be goldmines
- December Brussels Briefing
- Give everyone a carbon card
- Countdown to Copenhagen
- Pirate fishing causing global catastrophe
- Countdown to Copenhagen
- Scots Tory MEP throws down Copenhagen gauntlet
- Climate Change: Towards an ambitious agreement in Copenhagen?
- The SNP's plans for wind and wave power are unrealistic and unfeasible
- Man tipped to be EU President told - 'no Euro taxes'
- The Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI): promoting diodiversity
- Scots Tory MEP calls for SNP re-think on anti-nuclear stance
- A mix of renewables and nuclear energy is needed to meet Scotland's future energy demands
- October Brussels Briefing
- Careful consideration is needed as to how we travel about Edinburgh
- Energy saving bulbs to light homes in the EU
- New disease hits Scotland’s bees
- There are other alternatives to overhead powerlines
- Struan Stevenson calls for better wind farm planning
- Scotland will be instrumental in achieving the European Parliament's Climate Change targets
- Why we must protect our bees
- Struan Stevenson's climate change video
- Scots Tory MEP launches Intergroup manifesto to drive battle against climate change
- Gardners can help save bees
- Fish discards must be stopped
- Pylon protestors take their case to Brussels
- Scottish underground power line campaign backed by Europe
- Letter for publication welcoming Westminster's investment in bees
- Don't buy wine with plastic stoppers or screw-tops, urges Scottish MEP
- Environmental Breakthrough or Green Light for Greed?
- Brussels Briefing, December 2008
- Call for sanctions on poorly sited wind farms
- MEP's vote for urgent action to save Europe's bees
- Community guidelines on environmental criteria for wind farm construction
- Speech to IUCN World Conservation Congress
- MEP says Earthwatch debate should focus minds on future of bumblebees
- Our bees are stressed
- MEP says banning pesticides will cut production and increase food prices
- Scottish Government to think twice before destroying our peat bogs
- Food or fuel? Are biofuels the answer?
- Scotland leads the way in Europe on environmental issues
- Developers must fund windfarm objectors
- The implications of land practices for peat bogs
- Brown's wind turbine policy will do far more harm than good to Scotland's peatlands
- The medicine is worse than the cure on climate change
- Struan Stevenson hosts desertification hearing
- Stevenson welcomes refusal of Lewis wind farm
- Brussels Briefing, April 2008
- EU may stop windfarms being built on peat bogs
- Scotland not helping to tackle climate change
- 'Insane' EU biofuel policy could cause famine
- Scots MEP seeks European intervention on Skye windfarm
