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"Mr President, the EU has good reason to be satisfied with progress on sustainable development. However, resistance to it is now becoming a reality and national and commercial interests are clearly coming into view. It is more important than ever for the EU to be able to strengthen its partnerships with third countries and other blocs.
To its credit, the Union has especially dedicated itself to slowing down and preventing climate change. The information necessary for this is still limited, though sufficient to state that there no longer exists any scientific uncertainty that human beings are causing the earth’s climate to become warmer. Our prominent role, however, means the data we have needs to be coordinated and explored more fully. For that reason I want, prior to the meeting at Johannesburg, to propose that the EU should establish a special European Climate Change Agency, whose job it would be to support the Community in policy concerning climatic change. Right now this would be an important signal politically. The EU must acquire firm scientific support for its work, for example, in matters to do with trade, as our major competitor, the United States of America, is not intending to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
It would be the task of the European Climate Change Agency to compile data on climatic change and its impact on the environment, the economy and society. The Agency would have to produce and commission studies and evaluate existing data, and thus act as the much-needed link between scientific research and the political decision-makers. All this is necessary for the EU’s policy of sustainable development to gain strength and for the EU to hone its role as international leader. By acting on the best available information the EU can build international partnerships in which selfish national and financial ambitions can be constructively thwarted.
Climatic change is the most serious problem in our history and its most serious threat. It would be only reasonable to see it also taken seriously in connection with the use of EU resources."@en1
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