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"Mr President, cosmologist Carl Sagan said it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. 26 years later, climatologist James Hansen put it more bluntly: it is time to stop waffling. As a planet we have made slow and halting progress since we first began to appreciate our challenge. If I may, in an aside, say, as we approach the Lima gathering: it is a particularly unfortunate moment to dispense with the services of the European Union’s Chief Scientific Adviser. Right now more than ever, we need science at the heart of the decisions we take. The Scottish Professor Anne Glover has served well in this capacity, and I had every hope that her successor would do the same. I therefore call for Mr Juncker to reverse this decision and reverse it now.
The gathering in Lima will present a number of challenges, notably the question of burden-sharing. I am pleased to note that the UK will contribute GBP 720 million pounds to the Green Climate Fund. This is important. Equally important will be the funds contributed by others. It is this particular fund which will help us ensure that we meet the targets to ensure that the two-degree reduction is made.
Equally important, as we head towards the Paris COP meeting, will be the setting of clear and ambitious national contributions to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The headline agreement by EU leaders of a binding target to reduce headline emissions by 40% from 1990 levels is important, as is the statement by the British Prime Minister that this must represent a floor, not a ceiling. For much of the last decade we have been at the forefront of efforts to decarbonise the globe, and it has been a lonely place. With the recent climate change commitments of the US and China, we are no longer alone. Now is the time to find a truly global solution to a truly global problem. As we say in Scotland, it is now time to grasp the thistle."@en1
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