Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-01-10-Speech-1-075"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-01-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050110.12.1-075"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-01-10-Speech-1-0762
lpv:speaker	lp:Othmar Karas2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with Japan (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2004-09-16--2007-03-13)3 unknown; Österreichische Volkspartei - Liste Ursula Stenzel (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; IMCO (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member; Temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007-2013 (2004-10-14--2005-06-08)3 vice-chair; EPP-ED (2004-11-14--2007-02-14)3 member; ECON (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are indeed successful, but not successful enough. Things are indeed happening, but not enough of them. Hundreds of symposia are being held, but the amount of action taken does not reflect that. We are limping along in pursuit of our goals, and time appears to be running through our fingers. Climate change is one of the great challenges of the twenty-first century – our resolution says as much – but I wonder whether we are merely aware of this fact or whether it has really sunk in, and whether it really bothers us. Unfortunately, I believe, we have still some way to go from being aware of this to being concerned about it and doing something practical about it. We are powerless when it comes to taking the necessary political measures, even though individual events remind us of the need and encourage us to take it. The effects on the environment, the economy and society are plain for all to see, but they do not make us feel sufficiently endangered. We put the blame alternately on transport, domestic fuel and then on industry, the industrialised states, or again, the developing countries, and we have no overall view. With Lisbon in mind, would it not be opportune to talk not only about the damage done, but also about Europe’s potential for growth and ability to compete? The technologies we supply to other continents are not new, but old, and, while talking about global responsibility, we ignore the maxim that you should not do to others what you would not want them to do to you. While we talk about 2012, we are not yet giving the business world of today any assurances about the conditions under which they will have to operate when we get there. If we are to act in good time, we need these framework conditions; we also need Kyoto impact studies for everything we do in the fields of industry and transport policy."@en1

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