Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-02-04-Speech-3-027"

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dcterms:Date	"2009-02-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2050: The future begins today − Recommendations for the EU's future integrated policy on climate change (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20090204.3.3-027"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:John Bowis2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, we head now to Copenhagen, and my honourable friend’s excellent report is a good – if I dare say it – road map, or rail map, on how we should get there. Twenty per cent by 2020 was a start – but only a start. The package of climate measures that we have taken perhaps could have been better, but they were a start – they were a step forward. Now, with the changes in administration in the United States, we can no longer hide behind the United States’ refusal to cooperate. With the Obama presidency, we have the opportunity to stop exchanging words and start exchanging ideas. We hear that a meeting will take place on 6 March 2009. The following week we are back here and I hope we will have a statement from the Council on the result of its meetings in Washington. With the United States, we can now move to that 30% target and beyond. We are moving on now to ecodesign, realising here, as elsewhere, that it means tremendous new opportunities in innovation and jobs. We need to move on to shipping and to agricultural emissions. The Commissioner has referred to the urgent need to talk to the low-income countries in the developing world. They will be devastated, but they did not cause this problem. Islands will sink beneath the waves; malaria, respiratory disease, skin cancer and eyesight problems are already happening. Devastation will come to agriculture. They must take action, but they need our help. Scientists, of course, can be wrong and so can politicians, as we saw with Mbeki and AIDS. I may be wrong about the possible flu pandemic. I may be wrong about the probable impact of global warming. However, the majority of scientists may be right; the majority of politicians may be right. I and we will be culpable on both issues if I and we fail to take action to ensure that neither happens."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"John Bowis (PPE-DE )."1
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