Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2013-04-16-Speech-2-274-000"
| Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
|---|---|
| rdf:type | |
| dcterms:Date | |
| dcterms:Is Part Of | |
| dcterms:Language | |
| lpv:document identification number |
"en.20130416.39.2-274-000"2
|
| lpv:hasSubsequent | |
| lpv:speaker | |
| lpv:spoken text |
"Mr President, we have many times in this Parliament said that if we wished to encourage low carbon investments, then a price must be put on carbon. I am very much afraid that today we have turned our back on that policy and on our own future – our own technological future. But then the UK has a special interest in this issue, because not only do we endorse that European policy, we have gone further: the coalition government in the UK has introduced a carbon floor price to maintain a minimum price for carbon, so as to encourage those low carbon investments. Of course, while that price exists and while that price is higher than on the European market, there is no level playing field. It must, therefore, be in the interests of British representatives to stand up and say that the European emissions trading system needs to be tightened and that the price should be levelled.
But British Conservatives today have stabbed their own coalition government in the back; they have stabbed European climate change policy in the front; and they have dealt a major blow to the reputation of their own party. A few years ago, David Cameron was seen cuddling a husky to try to improve his party’s environmental credentials. Today, British Conservatives have not only killed that husky. They have kicked its corpse."@en1
|
| lpv:spokenAs | |
| lpv:unclassifiedMetadata | |
| lpv:videoURI |
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples