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Today Parliament voted against raising the target for emissions reduction to 30% by 2020.
At various points the report referred to the presumed benefits for health, the environment and the economy resulting from a unilateral reduction of 30%, without sufficiently assessing the consequences that such a decision would have on the development of the European Union as a whole in the absence of an international agreement.
We must bear in mind that, while the environmental impacts of a move to 30% might not be significant on a global level given that the European Union only produces 10% of the emissions resulting from human activity, the impacts of such a move on the competitiveness of the industrial system would be considerable, and have serious economic impacts and significant repercussions on employment.
I would like to recall that the Environment Council Conclusions of 21 June 2011 instead underlined the importance of meeting the 20% energy efficiency objective by 2020, blocking any change to the commitments made with regard to reducing greenhouse gases. Without comparable commitments on the part of industrialised nations such as China and the United States, it would be premature to change the objectives already set without first carrying out an in-depth analysis of the costs and benefits also with regard to the individual Member States."@en1
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