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"Madam President, I love to drive fast cars, and I just wish we had optional speed limits. But it seems we can have optional emissions limits under the Paris climate deal. We are told again and again that it is legally binding, but in fact it is no such thing.
There are no sanctions available, we are all terribly concerned about getting it ratified. But there is precious little hope that it will ever be implemented. If it were implemented, the EU only accounts for about 10% of global emissions, so we shall have no effect at all, while India and China continue to build coal-fired power stations. So what will we achieve?
I will tell you what we will achieve: we will set in stone the competitive disadvantage in energy prices which we have chosen to impose upon ourselves. We will accelerate Europe’s relative decline, we will leave our children and grandchildren poorer. The only good news is that after Brexit the UK will be in a position to review the Paris deal. I very much hope we have the common sense to repudiate it."@en1
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