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I am committed to combating climate change, but in a realistic way which combines sustainability and economic growth and, therefore, I have voted against this report. Why exactly have I done this? The EU climate and energy package defines the conditions for increasing our commitment to reducing emissions. We should keep to the terms of the package, including in our efforts to guarantee the security of investments. This increase in our goals will have hardly any impact on the UN climate negotiations. No studies have been carried out into how we intend to achieve the goal of 30%, in particular following Germany’s exit from nuclear power. I very much value the opportunities which energy efficiency offers and have already called for a mandatory energy efficiency target in the 2009 climate report. However, I am opposed to efforts to reopen the debate about the EU commitment to emissions reductions by the back door and by means of energy efficiency measures, and to attempts to change the key features of the emissions trading system, which have already been decided on, while failing to call for any binding energy efficiency targets. Before we take any further measures, we must achieve the goals that we have set ourselves and, in particular, demonstrate that the emissions trading system is functioning correctly. We must ensure that by making calls of this kind we do not damage our credibility with our partners and, particularly, with those partners who are hesitating about joining us. We will only be able to convince them if we can show that combating climate change is not just a competition over the figures, but also an opportunity to establish a society and an economy which are genuinely sustainable."@en1
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