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"Mr President, I would like to start with ‘thank you’. I would like to thank Commissioner Dimas, his team and Jos Delbeke. They did a good job; they gave us a good proposal in the first place. I thank Avril Doyle, who is tough, you know, and has a lot of tenacity and determination. It has not been easy, as John Bowis has just said. I thank all the shadows, who worked with us, Virpi Köykkä from the secretariat of the committee, Ulrike Schöner from the Socialist Group and Elizabeth Colebourn, my assistant. These people have done inhuman amounts of work in the last few weeks to make tomorrow’s vote possible – and they are nearly all women! We had a few men who helped us along the way. We had a good team and worked well together. I thank the Minister, his team and Léglise Costa because we have got a good package tomorrow.
What have we achieved? Well, John Bowis said ‘some of it’. But it is an achievement that we are here today and are going to vote tomorrow. That has not been easy, as there are some in this House who did not want us to vote tomorrow – who did not want us to vote at all before the elections. We are going to vote on a package that is balanced, which balances the environment with jobs. Yes, we have made some concessions on auctioning, but the auctioning is the ‘how’ – it is not the ‘whether’ – we tackle climate change. We have the cap and the downward trajectory and those are the key things that guarantee that we will deliver the 20/20/20 target.
I do not want anybody to leave this Parliament when they go home on Thursday saying that we have let industry off the hook – that is not the case. These are tough targets for industry and we are, as the Commission has said, the first group of countries in the world to have such a comprehensive emissions trading scheme. It will have the support of my political group, and I hope it will have the support of the whole House tomorrow.
At the beginning of this process I said that Europe had talked the talk under the German presidency, and now we had to walk the walk by taking these tough decisions on this legislation and the rest of the package. Tomorrow I hope we will make that decision, we will start the walk towards Copenhagen and along the way we will get some other people to join us and, at the end of the day, deliver a climate change package that is worthy of the effort that has been put into this by everybody in this House."@en1
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