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"Madam President, like my colleagues I must say it was a pleasure to attend the Morocco COP22, having been in Paris last year for the historical global agreement. Thanks indeed to the Slovak Presidency, Commissioner Cañete and the Commission, and my colleagues under the chairmanship of the excellent Mr La Via. Also there is thanks due to Morocco itself, it was a good location because they gave an example of moving to low-carbon economy: they have the largest solar plant in the world and electric cars were used to ferry people around from place to place.
Some people were worried about the impact of the presidential elections. I left much less worried then when I went there, for two reasons. Number one: the United States themselves have indicated that in many states there are movements to decarbonise the economy, both at official level and at business level. This is not going to change in states like California, Florida, Pennsylvania, and so on.
Number two: China, in reply to a question I put to them directly as to whether they would use the election in the United States to renege, or to attain the opportunity for global leadership on this issue, they said they would continue with global leadership on the path they promised last year. So I think we can be encouraged.
The word that we can use to describe this movement now is ‘unstoppable’. In answer to Mr Helmer, the climate change movement is alive and well, not dead; it is alive and well and living across the world. It will continue to grow. We have to do an awful lot, especially in relation to the developing countries. The EUR 100 billion fund will have to be attained. Energy use in Africa is going to treble over the next number of years, and double in Southeast Asia. So we have to help those countries, because they are also anxious to move, as they see the actual effects – on a daily basis – of global warming and climate change to their economies."@en1
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