Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-02-11-Speech-2-172"

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dcterms:Date	"2003-02-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Transport policy for 20102
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030211.8.2-172"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-02-11-Speech-2-1732
lpv:speaker	lp:Marie Anne Isler Béguin2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Les Verts-Europe-Ecologie (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the subject for debate here is not simply a report on the transport of the future. This is, in fact, one of the last ways out following a generation of production and mobility that has burnt itself out. Who would still dare to speak of disaster-mongering or ill omens of charlatan ecologists on the environmental state of our planet, in the face of WHO studies which estimate the number of deaths caused by automobile exhaust emissions at 800 000 each year. There is nothing we can do now other than try to curb the existing phenomena of environmental crisis. What was urgent in a Union of Fifteen now becomes an imperative before a Union of Twenty-five, and any transport policy that failed to include the sustainable development aspect would be entirely ineffective. The threats to our lifestyle are forcing us to instigate a genuine revolution in transport culture. We have certainly realised this rather late, but now we are, at last, able to separate increases in transport volume from economic growth. Far from previous traditions, this new transport deal should include environmental requirements first and foremost in its studies, place the transport-using citizen at the heart of its definitions and liase with NGOs in all of its deliberations. Increasing urbanisation must go hand in hand with improving public transport. For each new project, opportunities for intermodal connections between networks that already exist or are planned should be prioritised. Furthermore, we must not oppose this new deal on transport in 2010 with financial quibbling. An ambitious Community research and development programme must be carried out to counter noise pollution and harmful emissions in the transport sector and achieve the objectives of the Kyoto protocol. In its report, the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy raised the issue of the impact of these kinds of pollution on human health. Alarm bells are ringing everywhere, but that is no reason to simply announce that disaster is looming and cannot be averted. We have progressed from realisation to warnings. Now we must act. Far from giving up, Commissioner, in the face of the ecological disaster that is forecast, the Union must change direction with regard to transport and require all agreements and programmes, and heaven knows there are many of them, to comply with environmental criteria. Otherwise we are heading for a fall, with full knowledge of the facts."@en1
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