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"Mr President, Commissioner, although Commisioner Wallström is not with us today, I would like to start by saying, on behalf of the European Parliament’s delegation to the 8th Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention, how much we appreciate her cooperation with delegations from the House at the various conferences she has attended. We certainly missed her in New Delhi.
I should like to make a few points regarding that conference. The European Union must continue to take the lead in the international fight against climate change. It must therefore promote political debate on objectives for beyond 2012 at the earliest opportunity.
COP8 had seemed a good opportunity to consolidate decisions on implementation of the Kyoto Protocol taken earlier at Bonn and Marrakech. Unfortunately, the opportunity was missed. No broad debate was launched on the main issues for the second period.
Significant progress on technical matters was made at the COP8, however. These related in particular to mechanisms for clean development, reporting, and review procedures. On the other hand, progress on a political level was disappointing. As the Commissioner stated, attempts to water down the specific features of the Kyoto Protocol by means of the much broader concept of sustainable development won the day. In this connection it has to be said that the attitude of the United States delegation was not very constructive. It consistently avoided references to deadlines and specific objectives.
The members of our delegation all agreed that ratification of the Protocol by States which have not yet done so must be speeded up. We had in mind Russia in particular. If Russia ratified the Protocol it would come into force. It is however worrying that Russia maintained a non-committed attitude throughout the conference.
Regarding the position of developing countries, concern over inadequate financial support from developed countries was expressed. Transfer of technology to facilitate the adoption of measures to adapt to climate change and mitigate its effects was also deemed inadequate. Further, we feel we should consider the possibility of setting up an interparliamentary committee to deal with India in particular. India is home to a thousand million people. It has an emerging economy which is growing continuously and its Parliament has expressed a clear political will to cooperate with the European Parliament.
Finally, I should emphasise that there was constructive cooperation with the Council and the Commission. The latter both recognised the essential role of delegations from Parliament in conferences of this sort. It is precisely for that reason that we believe it is not acceptable for our delegations to be excluded from coordination meetings. We therefore request that delegations from Parliament be admitted to these meetings in future, at least as observers."@en1
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