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"Mr President, this document is worthy of praise and I believe that it is appropriate that technologies relating to the environment should be supported. Nevertheless, I would have liked rather more specific details because, so far, the environment is being identified with just two or three aspects of what we may call sustainable development — I am referring to climate change or the view that environmental technologies are those that improve the industrial processes for preventing emissions.
Nevertheless, I believe that there are many other extremely important environmental technologies that are not integrated in a systematic manner and that are not treated in the same way within the European Union's research projects: examples are conservation of existing resources and combating disasters. I am talking about extremely important aspects, such as the fight against the problem of forest fires, the fight to maintain our heritage and the fight to maintain nature.
But there is something else that I believe must be raised at this time. If Europe is to behave consistently, both with itself and with its projects, we must consider developing a line within environmental and sustainable development technologies dedicated to water and to the administration of the most scant resources. Specifically, we must make an effort in relation to all technologies that can be applied in Africa. We are talking about the fight against poverty. In Johannesburg, many people criticised the fact that the importance of all technologies dedicated to the supply of water were being emphasised, on the grounds that it would lead to the development of large multinationals. That is not the problem: we must provide the parts of the world living in poverty with instruments for conserving water and conserving the environment. That is what I am calling for on this significant date."@en1
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