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". – Mr President, the Members of Parliament have been too kind to me personally because the Commission has the best climate change team in the world. It is thanks to their excellent preparation of our negotiations and the preparatory work within the European Union that we have been able to succeed. But we were also able to speak with one voice in Bonn, which led to better results, and we stayed united. We worked well with NGOs and I believe that this also contributed to this good result.
As you said, the real result in Bonn was that we put the international framework in place. Of course we had to make some very unsatisfactory concessions, and the end result and the real reductions were limited in a way that we are not at all happy with, but we will have to live with this framework for a very long time. It will be subject to many adaptations and political changes and exposed to market forces, which will lead to change over time. However, we took the initiative from the very beginning and we were able to carry it through to an international agreement. Now we can work within that. We can change and develop it. The total emission reduction required, for example, for Japan is 14% and for Canada around 15% so there is still a real effort to be made for these countries. But of course we are not happy with some of the substantial concessions we had to make.
The second point I want to make which underlines what you have stated is that we now have to move from words to deeds. Again it is only by showing the way, leading by example, that we can stay credible. So I will shortly be presenting these three proposals to continue this work. We should stay in the lead in the world debate about climate change. We should be the first to present different initiatives at conferences or whatever, to exchange good practice, and so on. I would like your cooperation. My intention is to keep the initiative and ensure that we lead the world in combating climate change. We now have to concentrate on Marrakesh and putting all the legal texts in place so that these can be implemented. Everything will stand or fall with their implementation."@en1
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