Background
HASSI, Satu Maijastiina was born on June 3, 1951 in Helsinki, Finland. Parents: Osmo Hassi and Maija-Liisa Hassi, 1974.
Chairman of the Parliamentary Group Vihreä Liitto
HASSI, Satu Maijastiina was born on June 3, 1951 in Helsinki, Finland. Parents: Osmo Hassi and Maija-Liisa Hassi, 1974.
Master of Science in Engineering, 1979. Licentiate of Engineering, 1985. Spoken languages: Finnish.
Swedish, English. German.
She served as the Minister of Environment and Development Company-Operation in Paavo Lipponen"s second cabinet between 15 April 1999 and 31 May 2002. In accordance with her party"s position on the issue, she quit the cabinet in protest of the government"s decision to build a fifth nuclear power plant in Finland. Hassi served as the leader of her party between 1999 and 2001.
She has a licentiate in technology, has worked as an engineer in a power company and taught at Tampere University of Technology.
She has published three novels, a collection of poems and several essays. She has also been co-author of a series of physics books for high school students.
Hassi has recovered from breast cancer. According to Satu Hassi, Greenpeace aims to protect not only the Arctic nature but also the mankind future.
She argumented: IPCC has warned that 5 °C warming in this century is possible while Nicholas Stern pointed out that 3 °C to 4 °C warming means development we have never faced before.
World coal and oil resources are higher that the sustainability. Technological innovations and development must be directed in the carbon neutral alternatives. According to James Hansen the use of Arctic oil and e.g.
Canadian oil sand means “game over”.
In the European Parliament she is currently the coordinator of the Greens/EFA parliamentary group in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and a vice member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
She was a member of the national parliament from 1991 to 2004. She left the parliament when she was elected to the European Parliament as the sole Finnish Green representative in the 2004 election. Hassi was previously a taistoist, a pro-Soviet member of the Communist Party in the 1970s.
Hassi is a member of the Board of Directors of the Worldwatch Institute and a vice chairperson of the parliamentary network Globe European Union.