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"Madam President, I originally put in for the Correia de Campos report, but I can leave that to save time for everyone else and move on to the Arsenis report. I will start now if that is OK.
First of all, thank you very much for calling me to speak about this report. Whatever one’s view on climate change and the destruction of our environment or the problems with our environment, it is quite clear that it is important that we monitor the use of some of the gases that could damage the environment. At the same time, I would ask our colleagues to be very careful and make sure that we do not use the green agenda as a form of protectionism. We hear complaints quite often from farmers in developing countries who say that we are developing new standards – sometimes sanitary and phytosanitary standards – to raise the bar for their exports to the EU when what we could be doing is helping them to create wealth in their local communities by exporting food and other products to us, and we complain about the way that they use their land even though it is not particularly damaging to the environment.
That would be my first warning. But what I would ask, in general, is that, whatever our views on climate change and the green agenda, it is important that we find consensus in these areas so that we can gain the support of as many people as possible."@en1
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