Poul Nyrup Rasmussen in Washington DC

• Energy and climate- part of a new agenda for people’s security - 19-04-2007 17:13:30

  There is a new common vision in Europe shared by progressives and the PES. This is part of peoples’ new prospects for security. They see and feel the change in climate conditions each day.
  Energy efficiency, new sustainable energy sources, wind power, solar energy, Europe is at the front of all this. The comprehensive energy and climate targets which the European Council agreed in March 2007 are a new basis for Europe’s cooperation with the US. It’s important to understand that on both sides of the Atlantic we need long term investments.
  If we do it in the right way millions and millions of jobs could be created on both sides of the Atlantic. The PES adopted our program for energy and climate policies in Porto, in December 2006. Now we will follow up. The conservatives say that tackling climate change in Europe alone is too costly. We only account for 17% of total CO2 emissions worldwide.
  But the PES we have wider ambitions. We can cope with climate change if we do it together with the USA and we can take the lead in the effort to save our planet. For the PES, Europe should invest in new initiatives to be in the frontline for tackling climate change together with the new Democrat engagement on the issue in the US.

   

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