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"Mr President, I can do no better than a British newspaper, so I quote: ‘It is always a bad sign when a UN conference ends on time: if anything substantive is at stake, these unwieldy gatherings of 190 governments invariably overrun, only reaching resolution in the early hours of the morning. So it says much about the inconsequentiality of the agreement in Rio that it was finalised even before the meeting began’.
I think that is a pretty fair judgment on the structure of the summit, and I hope its failure will lead to a re-evaluation of the efficacy of these set-piece events. I would ask the Commissioner to take a lead from Parliament and consider the cost to taxpayers of mass attendance. I do, however, welcome one outcome and that is the setting up of the new high-level group. It will meet regularly and, I hope, avoid future dependence on these events, concentrating on true environmental sustainability, without all the social ‘fluffy stuff’ that has been associated with the Rio talks.
I look forward to Parliament working closely with Commissioner Potočnik in developing what Mr Gerbrandy so eloquently described as a ‘bottom-up’ approach – an approach that I fully support. If we are disappointed with the outcome for oceans, we have our common fisheries policy. If we are disappointed with the outcome for the environment, we have our land-use policy. Let us use these policies aggressively and make sure that we make a difference."@en1
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