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"I would of course like to thank Mrs Hulthén for the report on the European Climate Change Programme. The idea behind this programme is that, as a consequence of our international commitments and the fact that we are continuing to advocate climate issues strongly, we should ensure that we do our homework and that we produce in Europe what we also want to see in the rest of the world. I would prefer us to be pioneers. It is also a matter of being able to show actual results by achieving the goals to which we committed ourselves in the Kyoto Protocol.
For me, the essential thing has been that this must occur with the participation of all the various parties concerned. That is why we created the European Climate Change Programme. We had seven different working parties that investigated what was possible within the industrial sector, within the energy sector and so on. We have now identified no less than around forty different measures that are possible to implement at European level. In the initial stage we have picked out ten such measures and published this list in a communication. We have included these in this first stage because we have seen that they are cost effective and because they are ones that we can tackle within the next two years. We will then naturally continue with the other areas. We have a new working group that is working on the agriculture area. We must also implement measures for the transport and consumer area and progress within all other policy areas to ensure that we become effective in our climate policy.
I see the report and your comments as support for our action and I also believe that this helps us to speed up the work by identifying the next stages with hopefully more proposals that also cover other areas.
I had also thought about commenting and answering Mr Liese’s and Mr Langen’s speeches since, as you know, we have also put forward a proposal on the trade in emission rights. This is an additional way for Europe to show that we can be pioneers, that is to say by meeting our commitments under the Kyoto Protocol in a cost effective way. We can also consider this as a training period before it becomes an internationally established system for tackling climate issues. Both these gentlemen have now unfortunately left the Chamber, so I will not go into more detail on this matter. I should like to thank both the rapporteur, Mrs Hulthén and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy for the work on the draft report.
The current matter was not as prominent during the Johannesburg Summit as could have been desired, but the actual summit produced reactions from leaders in different parts of the world who thought it was time to make statements in this area. This certainly gave a slight impetus, but I would have liked to have seen the area given an even more prominent role. We see here perhaps the clearest example of unsustainable development if climate change continues as before. Since this is a global problem, it also requires global solutions. This is why we continue to fight hard for the Kyoto Protocol. We will show the way in Europe through our climate change programme which also includes a democratically anchored process with a number of different groups involved in the work."@en1
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