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.
- 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
