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"Madam President, last year, Mr Moreira da Silva, who was at the time a Member of this House, concluded an agreement with the Council on the trade in greenhouse gases. That was not easy, because the agreements that had already been reached in a number of countries with industry to reduce greenhouse gases had to be incorporated in European policy. Today, or in actual fact, tomorrow after the vote, what I see as a fresh agreement will have been reached and new arrangements will be in place by means of which emission trading will be extended to include third countries. I am proud that we, the European Union, have demonstrated that we are serious about Kyoto and that we not only conclude agreements but also live by them.
We, in Europe, have adopted defensive policy in the environmental field for too long. With the new CDM – Clean Development Mechanism – instrument and joint implementation, we can once again take the lead on the world stage. Thanks to the development and export of clean technology, we are creating a new market for cleaner production processes. Our European industry stands to benefit from this. However, I expect the transfer of environmentally-friendly techniques also to help developing countries to introduce sustainability and it will also bring them more prosperity. The exchange projects that can now be implemented with the developed countries or with countries in the process of moving towards a market economy, expand the market on which emission is being traded and thus reduce the costs per reduced tonne of greenhouse gas – a high environmental yield at the lowest possible costs.
In the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy and also in discussions involving the rapporteur, much has been said about the risks which placing the reductions outside of one’s own Member State can entail. Since we have now agreed at European level that joint implementation and CDM are all too supplementary, we have to settle for the review that has been arranged.
What matters now is that industry takes what is now available. Mr de Roo has done his level best, on which I should like to congratulate him warmly. He has made sound negotiations possible, for which I should like to thank him."@en1
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