Romania: Herman van Rompuy: Climatic changes, an important subject on European Council agenda

January 19, 2010

Bucharest, Jan 19 /Agerpres/ - The President of the European Council, Herman van Rompuy, underlined on Monday, within a press declaration given in Bucharest, that one of the reasons for his visit to Romania is to put in motion some tangible efforts for solving some challenges, noting to this end that the climatic changes issue will represent an important subject on the agenda of the informal meeting of the European Council on Feb. 11.

'This issue has become a real concern for many of us and draws the public attention to a great extent. The result of the conference in Copenhagen was surely a disappointing one, but there are also elements we can start from, so that we have better results in the future. It has become clear that this process is more complicated and more complex than we believed and, as a consequence, I think that we have to allocate sufficient time in the days to come to carefully consider the lessons we have to learn', said the President of the European Council.

He appreciated that we must examine to the minute detail what led to the results of the Conference on climatic changes, held in December 2009, in Copenhagen and, more than that, we must reflect upon some fundamental strategic questions: the consolidation of influence at international level, improvement of the European Union power of conviction, advancement in the process of combating climatic changes.

'The European Union and its member states have already done a lot at the level of unilateral commitments as regards the emissions reduction and ecological policies implementation and, at the same time, at the financial assistance level the states are ready to allocate for the poorest countries and those the most affected by the climatic changes', said the European official.

Herman van Rompuy appreciated that the EU member states must be proud of their efforts, but without being content with the obtained results.

'In the light of the other players' pledges as for emissions reduction we must carefully evaluate what we have to do to attain the objective of limiting the temperature rise to a maximum two degrees. This is a goal we all assumed', pinpointed the President of the European Council. AGERPRES

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