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"Mr President, this report sends an important political signal in the last few months of Parliament to the Commission, to the Council and to our own constituents. We should make clear that MEPs are committed to leading the battle to control climate change. So many of our constituents have suffered extreme weather events in recent years and the urgency of that battle is now well understood.
Parliament should also show that it understands the economic necessity of using energy more efficiently and of developing secure, sustainable, indigenous European energy sources. It is the volatile and rising cost of imported fossil fuels which is driving up Europe’s energy prices, not subsidies to renewables. The most important lesson to learn from the 20/20/20 climate package is that binding targets work; they deliver. Without a binding 2020 target for energy efficiency, progress has been far too slow, despite the fact that there is a political consensus that energy efficiency is vital for economic efficiency, and I welcome Commissioner Oettinger’s promise of further proposals on energy efficiency later this year.
I am in no doubt that some individuals and governments supporting a single greenhouse gas target sincerely want to see an ambitious level of greenhouse gas reduction and a market-driven push to a low carbon economy made possible by a high carbon price. But let us not be naive, most individuals and governments who want a single greenhouse gas target want it because they hope it will ensure that nothing much happens at all.
They want the greenhouse gas reduction to be 30%, not 40% or 50%. They want the target to be set after the climate change talks in 2015 and not before. They say they want the market to drive investment, but at the same time they vehemently oppose any reform of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and any rise in the carbon price. Let us get real. Energy efficiency and renewables are the ‘no regrets’ options of greenhouse gas reduction. Let us commit to them."@en1
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