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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-07-08"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Amendment of Directive 2003/87/EC so as to include aviation activities in the scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080708.6.2-102"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-07-08-Speech-2-1032
lpv:speaker	lp:Caroline Lucas2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, I would like to start by thanking Mr Liese for his excellent work on this file. I am only sorry that despite his best efforts the agreement we have before us today is one that my group can support only very reluctantly. That is a direct result of the deeply disappointing lack of ambition shown by the Council. For years now, governments have been talking with such enthusiasm about the ETS as the great answer to ensuring that aviation makes a real contribution to emissions reductions. Trading does indeed have the potential to play a useful role, but everything depends on the design of the scheme. Because of the Council’s intransigence the agreement we have today is a far cry from what is really needed and represents starkly the enormous gap between our governments’ rhetoric on climate change and the degree of political will that they are actually willing to muster. This agreement lacks crucial aspects, like a gateway to limit the degree to which aviation can just carry on business as usual by buying up emission permits from other sectors. It lacks full auctioning of emission permits despite the fact that it fulfils the Commission’s criterion of being able to fully pass on the costs, and it lacks a cap which is anywhere near as demanding as that required of other sectors. Now Parliament has done its best, and the agreement before us does at least represent some improvements on the common position. It is a small step in the right direction, but it is also a truly missed opportunity for what could have been. In order for it to become meaningful and for aviation emissions to be genuinely addressed we must now make sure the efforts are rapidly scaled up and given the environmental integrity they urgently need."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Temporary Committee on Climate Change (2007-05-10--2009-02-04)3 member; G/EFA (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Green Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; INTA (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ENVI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Mercosur (2007-03-29--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Caroline Lucas,"1 "on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group"1

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