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"Mr President, first of all I thank all Members for their contributions. I thank in particular the Commissioner, whose remarks I thought were very positive. I look forward to seeing exactly what is in the climate strategy next week. I think people will be pleased to hear that the review of the storage legislation is likely to be more thorough than some of us had anticipated. A matter we did not touch upon is this: when will the Directorate-General for Energy come up with its plans? It had a consultation period last year, if you remember, but everything seems to have gone quiet since. Thank you for your contribution nonetheless.
I would like to use my time just to respond to the combination of the Greens, GUE and Groote. I am delighted to hear from Mathias that the German strategy will be to rely solely on wind, solar and biomass, and I am looking forward to Sigmar Gabriel coping with German industrialists with this strategy foremost in his mind. In fact, now I understand why the survey that came out just a week or two ago said that the UK’s economy was going to overtake the German economy in size by 2030. I did not believe it, but now I understand where Germany is going, and it is not perhaps as progressive as it should be.
Now, as the Commission has said, this is just one tool in the box – one we need to use. As far as I am concerned, it is very much a transitional tool. I cannot see any of us wanting to take CO
out and bury it as a long-term measure, but we just have to face the realities: coal alone accounts for 42 % of electricity across the globe. One new coal-powered station opens in China every week; one opens in India every month, and there are hundreds in the pipeline across the world. Coal and gas are going to be with us for decades to come, and time is precious. The CO
they emit stays in the atmosphere for hundreds and hundreds of years. We need to try and prevent that CO
going up there as fast as we can. We need to develop every technological tool we can. CCS is a part – only a part – of the solution."@en1
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