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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, allow me first of all to say how delighted I am that we are having this discussion in this House just a few days after the Earth summit, which, as we have already heard, a number of you attended.
It is time, I believe, to take stock and, most of all, to look forward. Taking stock is a simple matter: the results of this summit are disappointing. Forty years after the first Earth summit and 20 years after the commitments made in Rio, while we were expecting renewed impetus, a leap forward, the leaders of the international community were treading water. As to the future we want, the promise has not been kept and the commitments have been carried forward to 2015.
The European Union set off for Rio with the ambition of sharing an action programme and we are returning with a work programme.
Today, I should like to thank the Commission and Commissioner Potočnik in particular, as well as the Member States, for the determination they have shown in the negotiations, and for embodying Europe’s ambitions in terms of the ecological transition of our economy, which we defined in this Parliament.
Where do we go from here? Now, more than ever before, I am aware of the responsibility resting on our shoulders and the role that the European Union can play in promoting a new model of development to help us recover from the crisis. In Rio, we failed to set an example, and we did not provide any evidence that we were applying and following through with our ambitions in terms of sustainable development in all our European policies. What we now have to do is activate the transition at European level and at the level of the Member States. Without further ado, let us introduce innovative financing and implement the financial transaction tax and the environmental tax. Without further ado, let us initiate our energy transition so as to put an end to fossil fuels. Let us commit to the conservation of our marine and terrestrial resources. Let us get on with it!
This will strengthen the credibility of the European Union and give it greater international weight. It will also enhance the prospects of the international human community for a better future.
Let us resolutely commit ourselves, once again, right here and now, to the work programme adopted in Rio to accelerate change. Above all, let us also reaffirm our ambitions and try to make headway in the next two meetings in 2012: on biodiversity in Hyderabad and on climate in Doha."@en1
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