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"Mr President, I should like to thank Mr Sacconi, the rapporteur, for an excellent document which I fully support. I would like to say that it proved possible to avoid discussing issues other than adapting in this document. We focused on adapting and I would like to congratulate the rapporteur for limiting the document to cover only issues relating to adapting and reducing the effects of climate change. Nonetheless, I would like to emphasis four matters I consider to be very important.
We should remember that beyond Europe, that is to say, in Asia, Africa and Oceania, the effects of climate change are very considerable indeed and bear no comparison to what we are experiencing on our continent. Secondly, we need to develop technology and ways of adapting that will reduce the impact of the climate changes taking place at present and enable us to adjust and adapt to what is happening to the climate. A further reason for acting in this way is so that we can then share our experiences with poorer and developing countries.
You may well ask why we need to do all this, ladies and gentlemen. The reason is that negotiating the post-Kyoto Protocol is a key political challenge facing the European Union, because it is much cheaper to guard against climate change and prevent it happening than to adapt to it. Anyone who travels to Asian or African countries or to the islands of Oceania will soon appreciate this. Our aim therefore has to be to ensure that the whole world commits to preventing climate change. This must come about in Poznań and Copenhagen, and it is our responsibility as the European Union to ensure that it does.
My final point is that the Union’s budget does not provide headings for our priorities. Our current priority is to overcome climate change and also to prevent it. This is linked to the Union’s energy policy. We do not have any such headings at present. The budget headings should be revised during the mid-term review, because our budget should respond to what the European Union deems to be most important."@en1
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