Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-07-05-Speech-2-238-000"
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"Mr President, I welcome Parliament’s decision today to reject the proposal to increase the CO
emissions reduction target to 30%. Even the 20% reduction target is lunacy. There is no scientific evidence that humans have a decisive impact on global warming. Nature itself regulates climate change; sometimes the climate is warmer, and sometimes it is cooler. This is why Greenland is under a layer of ice today, contrary to what one might suppose from its name. One eruption of volcanic ash can in many cases cause more CO
emissions than the annual emissions of the national economies of several European countries.
Why are we bleeding ourselves dry, when Europe emits only 15% of global CO
and the rest of the world has no interest in reducing its emissions? For countries such as Poland, where 94% of energy is generated from coal, it would be suicidal to adopt this package. It might mean that the amount Poland has to spend on reducing CO
emissions exceeds the total net amount it receives from the EU Structural Funds. I hope that today’s decision is a step in the right direction: as we are abandoning the 30% target, we should also abandon the 20% target. This problem should be a priority for the Polish Presidency."@en1
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