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"en.20110705.34.2-492-000"2
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"Parliament today failed to adopt a report on the EU’s climate change policy, after the final report was rejected by a majority of MEPs. The Greens were forced to vote against an originally strong draft, after centre-right amendments aimed at fundamentally weakening the report and previous positions adopted by Parliament were passed by a narrow majority. It is with great regret that my colleague and rapporteur Bas Eickhout was forced to recommend that MEPs reject my own report after it was hijacked by amendments from conservative and centre-right MEPs. The amendments, which passed by the tightest of majorities, would have meant the final report was a step back from previous positions adopted by Parliament and, as a result, the least-worst outcome was to prevent the report from being adopted. It is extremely frustrating that conservative and centre-right MEPs continue to keep their heads in the sand with regard to climate policy. It is clear that the EU’s current 20 % emissions target for 2020 is completely obsolete and that the EU needs to deliver on its pledges and step up to a 30 % reduction target. The Commission itself made this case last year. Clearly, there are plenty of climate dinosaurs in the EP."@en1
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