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"Mr President, although the climate change summit next week in New York is not part of the UNFCCC negotiations – not part of the process that we have all got so used to – it is an important gathering which, arguably, may be actually more important than these set-piece COP events, which are often seen by the public as very inflexible, rather frenzied and a little unintelligible.
I think Ban Ki-moon’s initiative in New York has the opportunity to engage the imagination of the public in a much more meaningful way. I look forward to that, because I think it could have real political influence. Of course, all the parties present in New York are already committed to agreeing a new global and legally-binding deal by COP 21 in Paris.
In the ECR, we recognise that developed countries need to take a leading role in the reduction of emissions, but we have always questioned the sense of forging too far ahead too quickly with unilateral action. That action may disadvantage the EU economy without any real impact on greenhouse gas emissions. This has been a constant theme in the five years I have been in this Parliament. At times, it has seemed that the EU really has been acting alone. I know people talk about that as leadership, but there is another way of looking at that, which is isolation.
I am pleased to say that I think this rather lonely position seems to be changing. I am delighted that this meeting is actually taking place in New York in the United States. I think it is fitting as a venue as we see at long last some real and meaningful action from the US Government. The US Government’s climate power plan is a real step forward, and I really do welcome that this summer. China – that other giant economic power – is committed to implementing a carbon market by 2020, along with tangible targets for emissions reductions. So I think the news is becoming more optimistic.
This is the context for Ban Ki-moon’s meeting in New York. As I understand it, the climate summit will concentrate on highlighting the benefits of taking action, not just the cataclysmic Armageddon-style warnings, but looking at the real positives for the future of climate action. For too long we have been lectured and hectored about our obligations. It is high time that the tone was changed and that the moral high ground ceded to a spirit of true global cooperation and recognition of mutual benefits. We just need to look at the energy market as an example of where those two issues have become juxtaposed, I think to the benefit of us all.
So it seems that the New York meeting will be taking us in that direction, and I wish it every success. Indeed, to echo Peter Liese, I also wish Commissioner Hedegaard success in whatever she is doing next."@en1
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