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"Madam President, both speakers have made a link between the previous debate on migration and the debate on the Sustainable Development Goals. They are right to do so, because what we are doing in New York is talking about the right of everybody on this planet to live to live a decent life in the future.
What I would like to see come out of New York is a commitment to finish the job that we started when we agreed the Millennium Development Goals: to put poverty eradication at the heart of our development policy and an agreement which recognises that ‘business as usual’ on the environment and climate change is simply not enough to guarantee a future with sustainable economic growth.
The good news is that we have got a text. There will be no haggling at the last minute in New York. But I hope the easy agreement does not mean that some governments imagine that the text can be forgotten, put away in a cupboard and pulled out every now and then and that they can pick and choose which of the 17 goals and 169 targets to focus on.
I am pleased, Commissioner Timmermans, that you have talked about how the EU will go ahead and implement that deal here inside the EU because there are two aspects, as you said. Firstly, how we make it relate to our development policy and our external action and, secondly, how it relates to our other environment and climate change objectives. So the first task is to get the right indicators and to get a common methodology, and I hope you will involve Parliament in those discussions in the future.
Finally, a word on the COP agreement in Paris. As things stand today, the emissions cut pledges on the table do not add up to the 2°C target. In fact, they deliver us a 3°C rise in temperatures. This is simply not enough. I know from having been in Africa that people in the poorest countries are already living with climate change, and it is they who will pay the price if we do not act. So we have to get a proper commitment on the actual pledges on climate change.
On the financing, as the minister said, it is not enough to say that we will commit. We have to see the money. I was in Turkey at the weekend, going to refugee camps, and I met the UN agencies. They are not getting the money that they have been pledged to help refugees now. We need to press on these points and deliver real money on the table."@en1
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