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"I am voting in favour of this report because it is urgent that the European Union takes specific decisions to combat the greenhouse effect.
However, the reference, in point G, to “flexibility mechanisms” is unacceptable to me because the principle of organising a market for the right to pollute would be scandalous.
The “right to pollute” should not be for sale and the richer countries should not be able to side-step the common law by means of a payment or transaction. It is they above all, who should have the means to conform to the necessary constraints in order to improve the environment.
Everything possible must be done to ensure that each operator will make the greatest possible reduction in its pollution, guaranteeing that the minimum effort laid down is carried out by all parties.
Market regulations should not replace the requirements of the law – and therefore the duties – which apply to everyone. This is a crucial choice of society which is fundamental to European identity. In this respect too, we are making serious concessions to American and liberal ideas which, however, have proved to be ineffective in terms of protecting the planet and to be unfair.
Europe has not been able to prevent the establishment of this principle in Kyoto, however it is in no way obliged to implement it in its own territory.
Finally, I hope that we will be able to resist it."@en1
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