DAILY NEWSJoint event on the climate change package
11/12/08. Poznan. The joint EP/Presidency/Commission event on the EU climate change package began with speech by Commissioner Dimas ensuring that no matter how the negotiations in Brussels on the 11th and 12th of December will turn out, "the integrity of environmetal goals of the Climate Package will remain intact". By this Commissioner seemed to be referring mainly to emissions trading scheme as his main point was to stress that auctioning will be the main way of distributing the emission allowances in the EU. He said this was giving price to the emissions which is of course absolutely true, but I must say that his statement could not wipe out my concerns over what will be the overall environmental integrity of the Package after Saturday as the EU Summit is over.
Commissioner Dimas insisted in his speech that he could not think of an option of not having an agreement on the Climate Package after the EU summit. He was ensuring the audience in this meeting space at Poznan that not finding a compromise in Brussels was not an alternative. But the way I see it, EU's credibility at the international climate negotiations at Poznan is not dependend on just about finding a compromise in the Summit during the following two days. It is also about what the compromise contains.
The Raporteurs of the different dossiers of the Climate package were the other speakers at the event. They were also saying that the parliament must see what is left in the bucket after the summit. The raporteur on ETS dossier, Avril Doyle, clearly stated in her spiritful speech that ”there is no way I will rubberstamp what comes out of the summit.”. The raporteur on CCS, Chris Davies said flat out concerning his dossier that he was worried how the Summit would end up. I think that this was clear message from the European Parliament that after doing 11 months of comprehensive work, the parliament is not prepaired to accept just any result of the Summit.
As the Commissioner Dimas said, lets wait for 2 days and see what happens..
Jenny Lindborg, Assistant to MEP Riitta Myller
Commissioner Dimas insisted in his speech that he could not think of an option of not having an agreement on the Climate Package after the EU summit. He was ensuring the audience in this meeting space at Poznan that not finding a compromise in Brussels was not an alternative. But the way I see it, EU's credibility at the international climate negotiations at Poznan is not dependend on just about finding a compromise in the Summit during the following two days. It is also about what the compromise contains.
The Raporteurs of the different dossiers of the Climate package were the other speakers at the event. They were also saying that the parliament must see what is left in the bucket after the summit. The raporteur on ETS dossier, Avril Doyle, clearly stated in her spiritful speech that ”there is no way I will rubberstamp what comes out of the summit.”. The raporteur on CCS, Chris Davies said flat out concerning his dossier that he was worried how the Summit would end up. I think that this was clear message from the European Parliament that after doing 11 months of comprehensive work, the parliament is not prepaired to accept just any result of the Summit.
As the Commissioner Dimas said, lets wait for 2 days and see what happens..
Jenny Lindborg, Assistant to MEP Riitta Myller
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