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"We are right to address the global scandal about Volkswagen. I am proud to have campaigned successfully for the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive – which requires companies to report and thus act on their environmental and other societal impacts. I am quite happy to say that I used Volkswagen who are members of a forum called ‘econsense’, which is the environmental interest group within the German employers group, to lobby internally to help win German support for the EU Directive. And they did do it. So, yes, Volkswagen's corporate governance failed badly. But we should also ask ourselves: why are diesel emission standards so much tougher in America than in Europe? Four years ago the World Health Organisation changed its rating for diesel exhaust from ‘probably carcinogenic to humans’, to ‘carcinogenic to humans.’ So I will not use today’s debate just to have a cheap hit at a car company, but instead to say we must learn from the failure of markets and of the European regulatory system, to recognise the science and adapt accordingly."@en1
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