Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-10-25-Speech-3-270"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-10-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Climate change – Floods2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001025.11.3-270"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-10-25-Speech-3-2712
lpv:speaker	lp:Eija-Riitta Korhola2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Suomen Kristillinen Liitto (1999-07-20--2001-05-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the two reports by Mr Moreira da Silva under discussion will be important while the Community prepares for the meeting next June of the parties to the Kyoto Protocol. Their aim is that the EU will play a leading role in the international struggle to slow down climatic change. I believe that Mr Moreira da Silva’s work has furthered this aim. According to an estimate made by the European Environment Agency, greenhouse gas emissions in the EU are expected to increase by 6% during the period 1990 – 2010. It also states in its appraisal that it is emissions from traffic that are clearly increasing most of all. Urban traffic in particular is the main focus for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from traffic. For that reason the committee is encouraging the Commission to make proposals in its new Green Paper to alter attitudes to transportation in densely built-up areas so that greenhouse gas emissions may be permanently reduced. The committee also considers it necessary to increase financial support for public transport and it criticised the Commission for the fact that policy and action in the EU strategy on a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions are of secondary importance. This is unacceptable if the EU really intends to lead the world in the process to slow down climatic change. The EU’s own input is vital, especially as the outcome of the sixth conference of the parties to the agreement cannot yet be certain. Mr President, now I would like to put things very simply. I feel that we politicians still have not grasped how serious the situation is with regard to climatic change. As politicians, we are used to making compromises with regard to almost anything, and we have learnt that the world is shaped that way – shaped for compromise. But now we have before us a party we cannot negotiate with. Nature is a hard fact of life: it does not submit to agreement; it just is. This is such a simple fact that I almost feel ashamed to mention it, but I believe this is the main source of confusion in the way we think."@en1

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