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"Madam President, this Paris agreement is a damp squib. It is little more than aspirational: there is no implementation or enforcement mechanism. That leaves the EU competitively disadvantaged as the only area with legally enforceable emissions obligations. We have talked about keeping global warming to 2°C or 2.7°C or 1.5°C. But the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) itself suggests a very wide range of values for climate sensitivity between 1.5°C and 4.5°C per doubling of CO2.
With this huge range of uncertainty, it is simply delusional to pretend that we can set meaningful targets to a tenth of a degree, but the real problems we face will be political not environmental. The economic damage and the sacrifices required from citizens to implement the Paris agreement are simply not deliverable in a democratic context. Governments that seek to implement this agreement will create an economic wasteland. They will be voted out of office.
Remember colleagues, when it happens to you, you heard it here first."@en1
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