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"Mr President, thank you for the opportunity to talk about the Commission’s work. It is being developed to help us adapt to climate change in Europe and in the rest of the world. Very poor countries especially, without having contributed to the greenhouse effect, will nonetheless suffer the most detrimental consequences.
Mr Sacconi mentioned that the Commission is preparing a White Paper, which is to be published in autumn 2008 as a follow-up to the Green Paper on adapting to climate change, published in June 2007. The main aim of the White Paper is for the EU to have an ambitious and effective strategy for limiting the effects of unavoidable climate change. This change has already happened. It will continue to take place in the coming years, despite measures to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, which I hope we will take and will be able to agree on in Copenhagen in 2009.
The EU will continue to play a leading role in international initiatives relating to adaptation. These initiatives are being developed under the aegis of the UN International Treaty. Meanwhile, the Commission has continued to cooperate with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and with other scientific organisations carrying out research into related fields, in order to determine the most appropriate ways for the international community to deal with the challenges pointed out in recent reports.
The Commission welcomes the European Parliament’s resolution on the Green Paper and I can tell you that it supports the greater part of it. I refer in particular to the need to derive the greatest possible gains from the harmonisation of efforts to reduce emissions and adaptation. There is a need to increase research and collect more scientific information, protect ecosystems, and analyse and evaluate current and future funding strategies. It is also important to strengthen the relationship between research and various policies and integrate the parameters of adaptation into the EU’s internal and external policies where necessary. We must ensure the full participation of all national administrative bodies and civil society in tackling the issue.
In drafting the White Paper on adaptation the Commission will, of course, make full use of the contributions of concerned parties within the framework of dialogue, as well as the European Parliament’s views. Let me thank you for all your support so far for the European Commission’s endeavours."@en1
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