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"en.20031021.4.2-110"2
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"This new debate on the monitoring mechanism of Community greenhouse gas emissions and the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol is in danger of being nothing but a further series of pious hopes if a proactive approach with an element of compulsion is not adopted on this issue. We have voted in favour of the amendments aimed at making the mechanism more coercive and rigorous, because the climate situation, as tragically demonstrated by the recent heatwave, requires more than half-measures. Over and above the simple regulatory aspect, we have, however, a duty to reflect upon alternative models of development and production. We cannot let the market impose laws and criteria that make production the be-all and end-all.
We need, on the contrary, to make these issues the subject of a genuine choice reflecting the view of society as a whole and, therefore, to give some thought to an alternative transport policy in Europe, edging out road transport, which produces a lot of greenhouse gases. We need, by way of continent-wide public policies, to develop public transport for travel by rail, sea and river. We need to go a step further in ecological terms, both in the production process and in forms of consumption. Other energy choices are needed in the end, beginning with energy savings, an end to nuclear energy and the search for non-polluting and renewable energy solutions."@en1
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