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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that, in reality, the figures tell us that Europe alone is not capable of accommodating the effects of climate change. According to the data, 33.5 billion tonnes of CO
were emitted into the atmosphere in 2010 – an increase of 5.9% on the year before. We know that the main emitters are the United States and China. We also know that China is the largest producer of CO
and that its economy is, to a very large degree, based on energy generated by carbon, which produces one-fifth of China’s energy, and that a large part of China’s domestic heating relies on carbon.
In my opinion, all this tells us that we must change our approach. Copenhagen was cloaked in great but delusive expectations, whereas Cancún, when it became more concrete, produced some results. I believe that today, we should aim towards a new climate strategy which truly focuses on research, on renewable energy sources and on energy efficiency, whose potential has been little tapped into in the past. According to a United Nations study, of the USD 112 billion invested globally in clean energy in 2008, only 1.8 billion was spent on improving energy efficiency."@en1
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