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"Madam President, Commissioner, the world is facing two major long-term challenges: combating the effects of climate change and combating poverty and hunger in the world.
The Commissioner mentioned the figures, as did other members of this Parliament, and they appear in the final declaration of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) World Summit on Food Security: over a billion people around the world are suffering from hunger and 40 million die every year as a result of poverty.
First the food crisis and then the financial crisis have been hindering achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. We are not progressing: we are actually moving backwards. The challenges are long term, but the solutions are urgent and are needed now. However, in recent weeks, we have received alarming news of resistance among the main gas emitters to making decisions at the Copenhagen conference and the absence of leaders and specific results at the FAO Summit in Rome.
Our problems are alarming, but no less so is the lack of capacity for action. Human beings have progressed because we have identified challenges, determined the responses and taken action. In the current times, we know what we are up against but we have lost the capacity for action.
I therefore support the resolution, which calls on Parliament to take action as a matter of urgency."@en1
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