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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, despite your efforts, Commissioner, it is abundantly clear that Rio is a failure and that we have even lost valuable time at a time when we are in an established emergency.
It is truly paradoxical that all the Heads of State or Government who were present – few in number but present nonetheless – recognised the seriousness of the situation and, at the same time, were totally powerless to act. Perhaps more importantly, the lawyers are at the stage of proposing a principle of non-regression in environmental law, while for thirty or forty years we have been pushing, and those very same lawyers have been pushing, for progress in environmental law.
It is abundantly clear that we cannot remain in this situation and that we need to re-examine our governance at global level. Even if the powers of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) are extended, this programme is not a global environmental organisation. We need an international criminal court dealing exclusively with environmental law to address crimes which may be committed and offences which cannot be tried, and I reaffirm this very solemnly.
Ladies and gentlemen, you have said a lot about the bottom up approach. It is quite clear that we must find another way of working with civil society, which, in many countries, is the driving force, through a sequence of small operations, behind the change we all need and which safeguards, albeit sometimes modestly, the general interest, so that civil society can be represented in the negotiations, exert its influence, make proposals and take action.
We need to review the whole issue of governance. This will enable us to truly put in place a green economy, to ensure that global trade is not abandoned to total freedom regardless of social and environmental rules and, lastly, it will enable Europe to fully play its role once again. Today, the European Union is regarded as the sick man of the global economy. Well, we must spearhead the green economy and the ability to overcome national egoisms."@en1
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