7
Jun
2022
Watch
Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System - Social Climate Fund - Carbon border adjustment mechanism - Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System for aviation - Notification under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) (joint debate – Fit for 55 (part 1))
Mr President, Commissioner, colleagues, it is clear for me that the future is clean. It couldn’t be green, but clean for sure. That’s clear for me. And I believe that is not the responsibility only of the younger generation, but their parents’ generation as well. We should all contribute to that, and I know that it’s meaningful action if only the rest of the world is following, otherwise is just something that we are going to do – a hard exercise which going to pay a high price with suspicious results at the end. But I am sure that our diplomacy will do its best to make the rest of the world to follow. Now, the only thing that I would like to see more is to treat our industry as a partner, not as a criminal which is poisoning our environment. Because let’s be honest, the input from millions of European families are provided by European industry, not by European institutions. So we have to treat them equally and pay attention of what price they are supposed to pay for our policies that we are making.