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We shall be voting for the resolution on the European Union's strategy for the Bonn Conference on Climate Change. It responds to an urgent need, by confirming the intention to forge ahead in the face of President Bush’s unilateral opposition to the Kyoto Protocol. It also contains positive articles, such as the article which reaffirms the need to promote ‘clean development’ by encouraging technologies which exclude nuclear energy, the large-scale use of fossil fuels and the use of carbon sinks. Or the article which favours internal-action policies and measures for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, rather than the use of ‘flexible mechanisms’ (which the resolution restricts to no more than 50%). Or the article which calls for, beyond current stipulations, for the WTO to comply with environmental priorities established externally by an international conference, in order to prevent countries which do not ratify the Kyoto Protocol from obtaining unfair competition advantages.
This resolution shows how far the situation has deteriorated today. The Union has been reduced to defending the Kyoto Protocol which was, in any case, far from perfect. Kyoto unduly favours the mechanisms of an unequal market. The Protocol sanctions the successive climb-downs which environmental policy has seen since the Rio Conference under pressure from established interests and supporters of economic liberalism. We cannot be content with this state of affairs."@en1
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