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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the fight against global warming is not just Europe’s fight: it must become the whole planet’s battle. Otherwise all our great plans will be meaningless and the Europeans alone will make enormous efforts for results that will remain a drop in the ocean.
In addition, we need to ensure European dynamism today. Again, massive and unattainable goals lie ahead of us. The European summit in March of this year stipulated that greenhouse gas emissions must be down 20% by 2020, with renewable energy meeting 20% of the Union’s demand. However, one of the major questions that remains is, naturally, who will pay for that?
Companies and consumers would have to cough up about EUR 60 billion a year for the climate plan, which for my country, Belgium, would work out at EUR 2 billion a year, and globally at at least EUR 200per citizen. This not only threatens an enormous tax increase, but is also a factor that threatens to force businesses to move abroad to countries where the environmental restrictions are less stringent.
We must therefore stick to ‘treating the symptoms’ as long as some of the players on the world stage are not prepared to make the necessary efforts."@en1
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