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Mr President, I too would like to thank Mr Florenz and Mr Wijkman for taking the initiative and prompting this debate. Commissioner, global warming is materialising much quicker than anticipated. We are faced with the dual task of adapting to climate change and, at the same time, of keeping it to an absolute minimum. In the light of this enormous challenge, the outcome of the Climate Conference in Buenos Aires was particularly disappointing. It is, of course, good that a seminar managed to keep the Kyoto process on the rails, if only just, and that the EU had its own way and that next week’s seminar in Bonn will be about future developments, but this is a shamefully poor result. We have to conclude that the EU is becoming ever more isolated, and that the urgency that is felt in Europe is not shared in other parts of the world. The EU will need to be constructive in Bonn if a much stronger international coalition is to be built up, and sound, productive and well-founded proposals will have to be tabled there.
Commissioner, I would like to put to you four points which, in our view, can help achieve a constructive, international coalition.
First of all, we must put far more work into adaptation and help others, certainly developing countries, to adapt. Adaptation is certainly not simple, but aid should definitely not be restricted to major disasters. As lifestyle adaptation is far-reaching, credible programmes must be written.
Secondly, with regard to the transfer of technology, which has already been mentioned by Mr Wijkman, we must abandon our ideological reservations about the mechanism for clean development and go all out for investment in technology transfer, concentrating on further research and development in the area of environmental technology, to which subject I will gladly return during the debate on the seventh framework programme for research.
Thirdly, we will need to focus far less on the national approach and objectives within each country, but far more on sectoral objectives. In the discussions we held as parliamentary delegation in Buenos Aires, a sectoral approach emerged as a viable route. We will need to enter into dialogue with the steel, cement and paper industries. I regard aviation as a sector to which priority should be given. In all these sectors, competition is worldwide, so it is obvious that worldwide objectives should be established based on the best available technology. Moreover, a sectoral approach is ideally suited to our Lisbon strategy, which was reviewed during the last spring summit.
Finally, although it is more controversial for me to say this, I would ask you to consider the role that the WTO can play. The European Union must open the discussion on trade measures against countries that fail to meet their climate obligation. In that case, green trade policy is not directed against developing countries but against the richer countries, which can, in fact, result in help for developing countries. Commissioner, we expect from the European Union an international climate policy with ambition and with the largest possible international support base in other countries, industry and among the public. I wish you much success in Bonn."@en1
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