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"Mr President, Commissioner, the first United Nations conference on the environment and sustainable development was held in my home city of Stockholm. That was 40 years ago and a great deal has happened since then. For example, there is very broad knowledge and awareness with regard to the environment and sustainable development today. Mr Helmer of the Europe of Freedom and Democracy Group is entirely alone in his views; the majority of other people are aware that major events are happening in the area of the environment that we need to address.
The problem is that the measures we have decided on hitherto at international or national level have not been able to hold back the rapid changes, given the continually increasing environmental and climate-forcing stresses. Many people are disappointed by the Rio Summit, and therefore I would ask the question: what did we actually believe would happen? Do we believe that it is possible to create political pressure in connection with long-term issues of survival when the economic crisis is forcing so many people to worry about how they are going to keep body and soul together in the short term? Did we really believe that this was possible?
For this reason, I believe that the Rio Summit was a wake-up call, because it clearly linked issues of social justice with climate and environmental issues, and that is something that we need to bear in mind in our ongoing work. If we are to make any progress, we must now always combine social justice with questions relating to our common long-term survival."@en1
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