Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-07-05-Speech-4-021-000"
| Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
|---|---|
| rdf:type | |
| dcterms:Date | |
| dcterms:Is Part Of | |
| dcterms:Language | |
| lpv:document identification number |
"en.20120705.8.4-021-000"2
|
| lpv:hasSubsequent | |
| lpv:speaker | |
| lpv:spokenAs | |
| lpv:translated text |
"Mr President, we debated the preparations for the Rio+20 conference intensively in our respective bodies within the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. It must be said however, that, in the final analysis, the result achieved in Rio is fairly unimpressive. Mr Prodi expressed our disappointment in a nutshell, calling it Rio minus 20! Some NGOs described the result the same way. What has been achieved in the conference is really very little indeed.
Firstly, we need to consider whether there is much point holding conferences in this format. We have been through Copenhagen, which was a disaster, and now we have had Rio+20: we are moving from one disappointment to the next. I think that the upgrading of the UN Environment Programme, putting it on an almost equal footing with the WHO, is the right approach, as it will give this organisation more authority and more enforcement powers than was previously the case. This is a very important point.
We are going to witness the world’s population grow to 9 billion. We are heading for a catastrophe if things keep going like this. If more and more people live in industrialised nations and want access to energy and if we do not take radical steps to avert this, we shall encounter enormous problems. That is why we need a new development strategy.
There has been no public debate on this issue, even in advance of Rio. When I consider what we voted on yesterday – ACTA – and the number of e-mails and letters, etc. we received on this issue, then I believe that we also need to move towards a sustainable planet in the digital community too. After all, this world is the only one we have got. We can play our part here by changing our strategy and bringing more people along with us, and then perhaps the Angela Merkels of this world will travel to the next summit and really put their heads together to produce concrete results."@en1
|
| lpv:videoURI |
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples