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lpv:speaker	lp:Catherine Bearder2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, air pollution is serious. Doctors and scientists are giving us the evidence and warning European governments of the disastrous effects on us all. It is high time that clean air is seen as an essential human right, as is clean drinking water and enough food for all. Air pollution causes 400 000 premature deaths every year in Europe. Dirty air is particularly damaging to unborn babies. While I am pleased that EU governments have agreed to halve the number of early deaths in Europe from air pollution by 2030, it is clear that we must all work to achieve this – industry, farming, governments and everyone else. These negotiations were tough, and it has been good to work cross-party. I thank all of us who were working on that. Thankfully, we had Julie Girling, who was that tough negotiator that we really needed, but many Member States were reluctant to agree to the targets and may drag their feet. Just look at my own government in the UK. They know that London is failing on air quality, yet they plough on with expanding Heathrow Airport. Air pollution around the airport is already dangerously above legal levels of nitrogen dioxide, and this will make it worse. For the Conservative Government, air pollution is a trade-off. Chasing economic growth is more important than actually protecting the public’s health, or perhaps they think that outside the EU we will not be affected by air at all. That is not acceptable, and as a Liberal Democrat I will continue to fight against the Heathrow expansion and for good quality care for all European citizens."@en1
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