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Madam President, firstly – and you have heard me say this before – we will have to live with the issue of climate change for a very long time – maybe for generations. It will pose a challenge to humanity for generations to come.
It is important that the European Union should continue to show leadership on this issue. We should continue to demonstrate that we are willing to take action at home and internationally, that we believe that a truly global problem also requires a global solution. We will also have to be cost-efficient. To be credible, we will have to look at the most cost-efficient solutions; this is part of that process, and in doing so we will be able to mobilise all the various groups of stakeholders. This will help us to do so. My thanks for this again go both to the rapporteur and to the whole European Parliament.
I would like to comment on two points mentioned during the debate. First of all, Russia. As has been mentioned, a team of Commissioners will be going to Russia later this week in order to discuss a number of issues, including many areas of cooperation with Russia. We should not wait for Russia – that is true – but the 120 countries that have ratified are not waiting; they are actually carrying out actions on the issue of climate change already. However, we should of course keep up the pressure on Russia and make it clear to the Russians that they hold the key to the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol, that what they do is important, and that we are counting on them. Therefore we will continue to work on that.
The other issue is an important one: the argument about sinks and our position on sinks. Again, I am satisfied that our position on sinks is consistent, since in all the negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol we have remained rather sceptical on sinks – at least until such time as we can monitor and control sinks and count them reliably.
That is one of the arguments, the other being the temporary nature of sinks and emission reductions from them. We have also pursued our line in this proposal and I welcome that. These are the arguments. We still have too many uncertainties, and we have to clarify those; but of course they are in the Kyoto Protocol, and one day I hope that this will also be another opportunity for Brazil and other countries. However, as long as we do not have full knowledge, we should be careful.
This will be another effective instrument within our climate change policy."@en1
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