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"Mr President, I shall attempt the trick of representing two people here today – myself and Mrs Corbey, who was present at the New Delhi conference. That does not mean that I shall convey two different messages. Instead, I shall try to make the message as stringent as possible.
Having read the Commission’s and Parliament’s report on the New Delhi conference, there is a question that keeps going round in my head. What is it that causes us, or the EU, to fail in communicating our message and our desire for change to, above all, the developing countries? Why is the United States more successful in doing so? The United States’s message is, at least in our eyes, worse in terms of combating the climate change that is under way.
It is essential for the EU now jointly to begin to reflect upon how it might try to reduce the credibility gap that in actual fact exists between ourselves and those whom we wish to get on our side. That also applies to the possibility of ratifying the Kyoto Protocol. These all no doubt constitute the most important aspects of our continued strategy for trying to progress further. It is, above all, a question of making further progress with the important work that will now commence when this part of the Kyoto Protocol has been concluded.
Mrs Corbey, who was present at the New Delhi conference, made some notes that I think are worth communicating to the House. They are, above all, about the Kyoto process in actual fact constituting a serious political danger because political support for the whole process is evaporating. There are two essential aspects to trying to increase political support again and to raising the issue for discussion at a more subtle and serious level. One factor, for example, is the one I have just addressed, namely the situation in the developing countries and our relations with those countries. At the New Delhi conference, quite a few of them reported extreme weather conditions. It was not just one country but a number that did so, and they also expressed opinions as to what costs the situation would entail.
Even though we in the EU cannot accept responsibility for all these forms of climate change, we must nonetheless regard ourselves as one of the parties which, together with the rest of the industrialised world, has contributed most to creating the climate change now under way. We must adopt a clearer role in helping the developing countries to protect themselves against climate change. We must, of course, also help them find ways of making progress in terms of development that are not merely a case of taking the route that we ourselves do not consider to have been entirely successful.
What is perhaps most important is that, in spite of everything, the EU should continue to push for something’s happening after 2012 and that we should not give up, in spite of the surrounding world’s actually wanting something different. That is perhaps the most important message to have come out of the New Delhi conference."@en1
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