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"Mr President, last week the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety adopted my amendment relating to the World Trade Organisation in which I propose that government experts should investigate the possibility of imposing trade sanctions at WTO level on those that remain outside the Kyoto Protocol in the future, in phase 2.
This is a tough statement, I readily admit. It should be borne in mind, however, that no one is being condemned to having sanctions imposed on them here: we are simply proposing that the possibility should be investigated for the future. For this we shall need new opening gambits and moves, and bold ones too, in the debate on climate policy. I therefore ask whether we should not take the step that would make free-riding impossible and uncomfortable. Hopefully, the weaknesses of the Kyoto Protocol will also reveal themselves to us, so that we might learn a lesson, and so that by 2012 we might have much more effective weapons to fight climate change.
We have to admit that Kyoto has now reached an impasse, as the global front is inadequate, partly because there are no limits for developing countries, and partly because the major polluters are on the outside. That makes Kyoto ineffective and causes the distortion of competition and carbon leakage. Even if we did all we could in the EU, it has been estimated that in future decades the proportion of emissions from the 25 EU countries will drop to below 10%, while developing countries will increase their share to over half of all emissions. Unless the front is made wider, the efforts of the EU will come to nothing.
Not even the EU, however, will be safe from my WTO amendment, if it does not succeed in fulfilling its commitments. Political decisions and rhetoric in the EU are now in a good state, certainly, but practical development is becoming a problem. Progress in the reduction of emissions in the EU has come to a halt, as the easiest action to make cuts has been taken. Nine of the fifteen old Member States have exceeded their own Kyoto targets by more than 20%. Unless we can think of something radical, there is a danger that we too will have to recognise the hopelessness of the situation."@en1
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