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The follow-up conference on climate change in Bonn produced two extremes. On the one hand, those who say that the result obtained there was the best achievable under the present circumstances, are correct. On the other hand, the result is worse than the worst-case scenario that was feared at the previous conference in The Hague in November 2000. That conference was dominated by the fear that, for the sake of a worldwide agreement, concessions would be made to the US. Among the EU Member States, the question was about the choice between two possibilities. One was to stand firm in order to maintain the reductions agreed in Kyoto. The other was to search for what might be just acceptable to the Americans, and to accept the required moderation as inevitable. As an observer at this conference, I took the side of the steadfast German and French Green Environment Ministers in the debate at the plenary session on 29 November. Since the refusal of the new American President to sign any agreement, the resistance against what was then feasible seems to have fallen by the wayside. In order to keep Japan and Australia on board, more has now been paid than was demanded by America last year. Bush is the winner. In ten years’ time, this inadequate agreement will be deemed a disgrace."@en1
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"- Conference on climate change (RC B5-0539/2001 ) RC B5-0539/2001"1
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