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"Mr President, it is a crying shame, to my mind, that we are not legislating on climate change today, because, given the remarkable profession of faith I have witnessed here, I do not believe we would have as much trouble passing legislation as we have had in recent months. I say that with the benefit of my experience as a rapporteur in this field, during which I have often detected a certain scepticism towards climate change.
Let us, then, learn the lessons. First, by moving towards sustainable forestry management, laying greater emphasis on indigenous species and less on foreign ones; laying emphasis on multiple uses of woodland, because the presence of people, through activities such as hunting, tourism, beekeeping, forestry, grazing and agriculture, is the best deterrent and surveillance tool. Let us also learn lessons, however, about climate change: fires, which make an instantaneous contribution to climate change by producing large amounts of carbon dioxide and reducing our carbon sink capacity, are increasingly a consequence of climate change. We are locked on a collision course with climate change. The 1990s was the hottest decade for two hundred years. Last summer, record high temperatures were reached in various parts of southern Europe. Scientists suggest that temperatures will rise by 5.8 degrees over the next 100 years. On the domestic agenda, first of all, we must therefore follow up the positive efforts we have already begun in the field of transport, through the trade in emissions and through reduction measures in the industrial and energy sectors. On the world stage, however, we must also pressure the United States to adopt the Kyoto Protocol. Kyoto is hardly a giant stride forward: a reduction of just 5%, when the scientists are telling us to reduce worldwide emissions by 70%."@en1
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