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"Mr President, during the last hundred years, the world has experienced an increase in temperature of approximately 0.6 degrees. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has noted that this change mainly affects the world’s poor people. I wish to emphasise this, because we in this House too often see global problems from a one-sided European perspective. The reasons why it is mainly poor people who experience the effects of global climate change are many. They partly have to do with the fact that these countries’ economies are often dominated by climate-sensitive industries, especially agriculture. They also have few resources with which to adapt to, and protect themselves against, various changes, for example rising sea levels or reduced rainfall. There are also too few resources for preventive healthcare. It is thus difficult to eradicate the risk of climate-related diseases, such as malaria, from breaking out.
The world’s rich countries need to coordinate their common efforts in combating climate change and to work in particular with preventive measures. My party believes that the EU should work on cross-border environmental issues. Climate change is among these. I thus support constructive and well thought-out proposals by the EU in this area. At the same time, I wish to emphasise that the UN Climate Convention
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189 parties. Thus, we cannot operate unilaterally through European institutions. We need instead also to coordinate our measures within the frameworks of other international organisations and to be alert to the UN’s competent bodies and the World Energy Council (WEC)."@en1
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