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"en.20111116.18.3-290-000"2
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"Climate change is one of our greatest environmental, social and economic challenges. Conspiracy theories aside, the warming of the weather system is a proven fact. Global warming is caused by increasing air and sea temperatures and the accelerated melting of snow and ice, resulting in a rise in world sea levels. As with the economy and the world financial crisis, we can clearly see that with respect to climate change we are all in the same boat, because whenever one state makes a particular decision, the whole world feels the results.
At the end of November a key debate on establishing an effective system of global rules will be held in Durban, in South Africa. The requirement, or rather the need to keep the global rise in temperatures below 2°C is one of the European Union’s primary tasks with regard to the environment. Unfortunately failure to reach a new climate agreement based on the Kyoto Protocol, and replacing it with a voluntary, non-binding framework will simply not be enough to keep global warming below 2°C. Durban has to send a strong signal, which is that a legally binding approach is needed to solve the problem, as there is no alternative."@en1
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