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Global warming and extreme weather conditions are increasingly caused by industry, agriculture and transport. Despite this, the governments of the richest countries with the highest emission levels of fossil combustion products have failed to bring about a drastic reduction in these emission levels. The rapporteur is right to point out that the European Commission’s original proposal is inadequate. Kyoto’s guiding principle was that the rich countries would keep their own atmosphere clean, although they were allowed, up to a point, to add the emission which they were helping reduce elsewhere to their own table of results. The Member States themselves will need to drastically reduce their emission of CO2 and other greenhouse gases by focusing on renewable energy, public transport and reducing traffic levels. The boom in the cheap transport of goods by road mainly leads to the polluting industry being relocated from the richer to the poorer countries. Nuclear energy is not an alternative because that too adds to global warming, emits greenhouse gases and leaves other waste products behind which hardly degrade. I fear that the forthcoming climate conference will be exploited as an opportunity to moderate the previously agreed commitment to reduce emission levels by 5.2% in the rich countries. The trading of emission rights may be interesting as an experiment, but it is not a viable solution."@en1
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