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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would particularly like to thank Mr Grosch, who organised an excellent collaboration. We have also achieved good results.
Without changing our mobility, we will not be able to combat climate change and then our children and their children will have no prospects when it comes to living here. Why is that? Since 1990, we have achieved a reduction in CO
emissions of 34% in industry, 17% in the energy sector and 14% in households. Over the same period, emissions from transport have increased by 30%. Thus, we can say that all the savings made in other sectors using billions of euro of our tax revenues are being eaten up twice and three times over by the transport sector. That is why we need to change our transport system.
I am very pleased that we have succeeded in finding a compromise, that we want to reduce CO
emissions by 20% by 2020, and that this is based on the figures from 1990 and not those from 2008 as the Commission wanted – as well as it only wanting to achieve the target by 2030. We have set higher targets. I call on the Commission to also accept this decision. We have no time to lose. We need to act quickly.
I approve of the fact that we have set out the internalisation of external costs for all modes of transport. After all, air transport is subsidised by European taxpayers to the tune of EUR 30 billion a year because it is exempt from kerosene tax and VAT, whereas rail transport has to pay everything. We have a mandatory rail toll for every locomotive. Road tolls are a voluntary matter for the Member States to decide on and only apply to motorways. Therefore, we need to change this.
We are pleased that the EuroVelo routes have been integrated into the trans-European network. As regards gigaliners, all I can say is: anyone who acquires these – 52% of goods transport is being shifted from the railways to the roads – and anyone who still calls these eco-liners really has not understood what is important in this world!"@en1
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