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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-10-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Climate change – Floods2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001025.11.3-269"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-10-25-Speech-3-2702
lpv:speaker	lp:Marie Anne Isler Béguin2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Les Verts-Europe-Ecologie (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2000-10-05--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees for relations with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the climate changes caused by our consumer habits have begun. My colleagues have referred to the catastrophes that are occurring in quick succession and which serve as warning lights that demand practical political intervention. We welcome the objective and clear-sighted findings of the report by Mr Moreira da Silva regarding the crucial issues and hopes, but also concerning the disillusionment and the renunciations that have infiltrated the battle line in the fight to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We know that the most important stage will take place at The Hague in November. We will see whether or not the parties who committed themselves at Kyoto will exercise their responsibilities and meet the demands of the global issues that await us, which put us all in the same boat and spare no one. Many people forecast a fiasco, however, and even an agreement on the cheap, which will sound the death knell of the Kyoto Protocol. We refuse to believe this hypothesis. The European Union delegation must stand firm. It should continue to be the leader, as it was in Kyoto, it should set an example, and it should not give way under any circumstances to the temptations of get-out clauses. Our mandate is clear and our demands are forceful. Ratifying the Kyoto Protocol is crucial, as is the implementation of domestic measures that will make a real contribution to the fight against greenhouse gas emissions. Let us hope that the European Council does not fall into the traps that have been set for it. The European Union must refuse to integrate nuclear power, even if there is strong pressure in favour of mechanisms for clean development. Nuclear power is neither a sustainable energy nor a clean one. It would be just as unacceptable to admit carbon sinks among the flexibility measures. It would be particularly improper and fallacious to make citizens believe that it is enough simply to plant trees to comply with the commitments undertaken at Kyoto. With 80% of its electricity coming from nuclear power and with an extensive covering of forest, France, for example, has not achieved the undertakings it agreed to at Kyoto, which are nonetheless minimal at 0%. Action must be taken in other areas. The European Union does not have the right to shirk its commitments."@en1

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