Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-24-Speech-3-326"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Progress report on European Union participation in the plan of implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg 2002)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030924.12.3-326"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-24-Speech-3-3272
lpv:speaker	lp:Alexander de Roo2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; GroenLinks (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 vice-chair; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-22--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, it has been one year since Johannesburg and eleven years since Rio de Janeiro. I was there. Environmental breakthroughs were achieved in Rio. The Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity were signed. Sadly, no consensus was reached in Rio regarding forests. Developing countries were fobbed off with the renewed pledge to increase funds for development aid to 0.7%, but ten years later in Johannesburg the contrary was seen: even less development aid. The Johannesburg Summit concerned itself more with the problems of poverty than those of the environment; and rightly so. 25 000 children are dying in our world every day. Fortunately, the Johannesburg Summit did not fail like the one in Cancún a week ago. Mr Davies has already touched on the point that the practical implementation leaves much to be desired, particularly regarding the European water and energy initiatives. Fortunately, however, a partial breakthrough was achieved in the field of energy for the first time. A coalition of the willing will now try to promote new, renewable energy. That is a good thing. The EU has to learn at world level what it is now doing internally, slowly and laboriously, in the Lisbon process. Progress has to be made with the economic, social and environmental circumstances at the same time. Improvements have to be made at the same time. We have not reached that point yet at world level. However, our Green motto is: trade, aid and firm agreements simultaneously. We want more fair trade; but that sadly failed in Cancún. More aid must also be given for clean water, sanitation and renewable energy sources for the more than one billion citizens of our world that are currently without them. New environmental agreements are also needed, particularly for sustainable forest management. We must not forget that. The path is long, but soft power will triumph."@en1

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