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"Madam President, it was a great pleasure for me to attend in Paris last year, especially as it ended in success with the historic COP21 Agreement. I think the European Union played a huge part in laying the foundations for it and in showing leadership, particularly under Commissioner Cañete, in that. It was great yesterday to see the ratification process being signed here by our President, Mr Schulz, in the presence of Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations.
We can look forward with confidence to Marrakesh in November. I think that Marrakesh can be seen as the COP22 of action. At long last, we are in the position to actually transfer agreements, commitments into action. The European Union will play a very important part, and in this we need to show especially diplomatic leadership, because we can do all we like here in the European Union, we could have targets to reduce carbon emissions to zero, but unless the world does the same, it is not going to have an impact. We can help, especially in ensuring all countries fulfil their commitments. We can also help in making the technology that we will utilise in relation to renewable energies, energy efficiencies, ETS, you name it, available to third countries.
I think we can look forward with optimism, but also we have to be conscious of the fact that we have three targets here in Europe. Firstly, to meet our targets in relation to climate change; secondly, to reindustrialise Europe – we had a motion for a resolution on that today – and thirdly, to maintain our competitiveness. We will not have to worry that much about carbon leakage if there is a global agreement, because that will establish a global level playing field, and I think it will make everybody happy that this can be done by increasing jobs and growth and at the same time saving the climate for future generations."@en1
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