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dcterms:Date	"2011-02-15"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Marisa Matias2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with South Africa (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Bloco de Esquerda (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; EUL/NGL (2009-07-14--2012-01-22)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries (2009-09-17--2014-06-30)3 member; ITRE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; ENVI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, before I go on, I would also like to praise the work which has been done by my fellow Member, and say that I fully support the issues that have been mentioned here. I am going to do something now that I have not done before, but which I think is worthwhile. We have a series of documents which holds a set of assumptions, all of them rarely discussed. It is as if they were assumptions unworthy of discussion. We have the oral question, and we have a resolution which tells us various things, including that the conventional rural electrification programmes financed by the World Bank have failed globally in their task of reaching the poorest in rural areas. We are also finding that there will be a possible, putative, change in the World Bank’s energy strategy in mid-2011, but we also know that it is in the energy sectors that we can combat poverty in a very specific way, and help to lift people out of poverty. We therefore appeal to the World Bank to adopt a development approach that can maximise benefits to the poor while, at the same time, allowing us to combat climate change. We have also already said that the loans intended for fossil fuels continue to play a predominant role in the overall energy portfolio of the World Bank, and that we must abandon this predominance. We also have the promise that this predominance will no longer be a predominance by 2015, and that there will be a gradual reduction in the financing of these projects based on fossil fuels. We have, finally, a set of statements, specifically regarding the need for the World Bank to give priority to access to local energy on a small scale. There are many, many others, taking climate change into account. Having said that, I would like to edit what has been said, and to which I subscribe. I will edit all of the statements that we have made, and leave just two, final, questions, because it is not worthwhile continuing with mere statements of intent. The first question is: why can we not draw from all this such a basic conclusion as this? Why do we continue to allow those who pay the piper to call the tune? Why does the World Bank continue to hold responsibility for the world energy strategy? When are we going to make the decision that the world energy strategy should be the object of worldwide coordination anchored in the United Nations? The second question that I will leave with you – I apologise for going slightly over time – is: when are we going to stop imposing a development model upon others, whether this be first or second generation, that is, whether first or second hand, upon the rest of the world, as if it were a development model that should be applied to everyone? There are limits to arrogance. We must be more democratic."@en1
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