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Mr President, Commissioner, let me first of all congratulate the rapporteur, Mr Sacconi, who has brought his experience on the issue of the environment and climate change to bear and produced a first-rate report.
Commissioner, as we engage in the real debate on climate change, the problems are all beginning to take shape, with great clarity and speed. This is especially true of environmental, economic and energy problems, on which the development and growth of both the European and the international economy are modelled. This development appears to have continued aimlessly, wasting natural and human resources, with the clear aim of accumulating capital. However, the environment has reached a parlous state, as can be seen from natural disasters, and a credit crisis has been reached. The energy products market is turbulent because there is no more equilibrium. Spatial planning for energy sources and the food market are in turmoil because agriculture is being used to supply energy. All this will prompt significant changes in the EU’s production model. However, other rival powers such as China and the United States will also take action, in a bid to redistribute productive capital and production factors.
We hope that the policy of adapting to climate change will prepare the EU’s new European development model. Perhaps this will protect the environment and employment and give new impetus to social policies, cross-border cooperation measures and taxation policy. For this to happen, resources and the Community budget must be redistributed and bolstered since as far as we can judge, they are insufficient to cater for adaptation. Commissioner, this is essential because tackling the problem of adaptation is politically costly; there must be no gap between the policies we announce and the budget we allocate. If there is, we will not be trusted either by the citizens of today or by future generations.
Let me say that we fully support Mr Sacconi’s report and make three fundamental requests. Firstly, the policy of adaptation should be added to all Community policies. Secondly, local, regional and central administrations should cooperate with each other; all policies, such as employment, cohesion and agricultural policy, should be coordinated; this is an important issue touched on by the rapporteur. Thirdly, and most importantly, international agreements must be cooperated on. We will have to bolster these policies as well as the fund, to which reference has been made.
Commissioner, we also await the results of the White Paper to which you have referred. Bearing in mind your sensitivity to these issues and to interinstitutional cooperation between Parliament and the Commission, we believe that the European Parliament will play an important role in your endeavours."@en1
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