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"Madam President, I had originally hoped to speak on the Correia de Campos report but I can leave that, in order to save time for everyone else, and move on to the Arsenis report.
First of all, thank you very much for calling me to speak about this report. Whatever one’s view on climate change and the destruction of our environment, or the problems with our environment, it is quite clear that it is important to monitor the use of some of the gases that could damage the environment. At the same time, I would ask our colleagues to be very careful and make sure that we do not use the green agenda as a form of protectionism.
We quite often hear complaints from farmers in developing countries who say that we are introducing new standards – for example, sanitary and phytosanitary standards – in order to raise the bar for their exports to the EU, when what we could be doing is helping them to create wealth in their local communities by exporting food and other products to us. We complain about the way in which they use their land, even though it is not particularly damaging to the environment.
That would be my first warning, but in general I would say that, whatever our views on climate change and the green agenda, it is important that we find consensus in these areas so that we can get the broadest possible support from as many people as possible."@en1
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