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"Mr President, we need convince no one of the importance of energy for developing countries. I have seen the surprise on people’s faces many times when they learn how much electricity costs in Africa. It is probably also true that we need convince no one that the World Bank plays a far from insignificant role when it comes to energy matters in developing countries.
My political group, the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), tabled a number of amendments to be voted on separately to the resolution we are discussing. It seems to us that some parts of the resolution are too critical of the World Bank. I do not believe, for example, that we can draw the World Bank’s attention to the fact that it regards some types of energy as clean when they should be regarded as environmentally wrong or undesirable. Nuclear energy, for example, is widely used in the EU’s Member States, and an increasing number of European countries which are dependent on coal or gas are suffering to a certain extent since they are having to limit their emissions, which gives rise to costs which are distributed very unequally between the individual Member States. We must therefore exercise caution when telling external bodies which types of energy should be developed. I do agree, however, with the idea that it is worth giving particular support to local projects covering small areas, that it is worth supporting low emission projects and that it is worth supporting ideas relating to diversified sources of energy and avoiding energy dependency.
We would like the World Bank to invest in renewable energy and increased energy efficiency, but we must always bear in mind the fundamental goal, or, in other words, how access to energy is supposed to help people break out of poverty. We want to kill several birds with one stone – to create the conditions for development, limit emissions and take into account social and environmental aspects in new energy projects. These are ambitious tasks, and I hope the World Bank is not afraid of them. At the same time, I know that Commissioner Piebalgs places a great deal of emphasis on the development of energy projects in developing countries, and I can confirm that this is discussed in the Green Paper and that the European Parliament should support this strategy."@en1
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