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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the miracle of Bonn: the Kyoto baby learns to walk. The Kyoto protocol is not dead, as President Bush has stated, but alive and kicking. Kyoto is a baby that has learned to walk at the age of four. Most babies learn to walk around their first birthday. Better later than never, as we say in the Netherlands in this case.
One thing that is certain is that the Kyoto baby needs to grow considerably in order to keep climate change under control. But that other environmental baby, the Treaty of Montreal of 1987, also needed fourteen years to combat the gap in the ozone layer effectively. The same will apply to our Kyoto baby.
President Bush is already experiencing that there is much truth in the Dutch saying: he who breaks, pays. He who walks out of negotiations, loses. The Japanese Minister, Mr Kawaguchi, arrived in Washington today for a six-day visit to try to persuade President Bush to change his mind and participate. There are very good reasons for doing so. CO2 emissions are twice as high in the United States as in Europe. It is no surprise then that there should be studies, like that of Florentin Krause, which show that the United States, by pursuing a shrewd energy policy, could both meet the levels of Kyoto and achieve 1% extra economic growth.
In order to step up the pressure on President Bush even further, my group and, fortunately, Parliament too, proposes organising CoP-9 in the United States in 2003. By then, the Kyoto baby will be a child of school age and will have to learn to talk, especially about the international trade in CO2 rights.
In Bonn, American business seemed very interested in participating in that international trade after 2008. The companies felt that they had been left out in the cold by their own President. The European Union persuaded them by teaching the Kyoto baby to walk, but now it needs to learn to run. I would like to ask the Commission to submit the Kyoto protocol for ratification before CoP-7 in Marrakech, and to put the proposal for internal CO2 trade before CoP-7. Finally, regarding the transport sector, which is so difficult to curb, I would advise the Commission to publish proposals restricting the CO2 emissions from vans and trucks.
In conclusion, I should like to express a word of thanks to the troika for the unanimous leadership of the European delegation and to the Belgian Presidency for its special balancing skills; to the Commission for the flexible and effective cooperation in Bonn, to the G-77 for the constructive attitude and to the environmental movement for its strikingly constructive contribution to teaching the Kyoto baby to walk."@en1
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