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Topic PRESERVATION OF NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
Country The Netherlands
Political group ECR and EFDD.
Subtopic
description Proposal for environmental improvement towards the EU
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The main goal of the EU must be that the countries themselves keep the control on how to
organise it. We believe that you can´t make Europe wide rules to get the situation
better in each country.
As we can see with the CO2 regulation, the trade in CO2 rights causes that companies
search for leaks in the system making the system useless and less transparent. For
example when you buy ¨green energy¨ in the Netherlands this doesn´t automatically
mean that you have energy without CO2 emission. Companies buy CO2 rights from
other companies to neutralise their ¨dirty energy¨ and sell it as green. This doesn´t
only ¨smell¨ bad, it also causes that the peoples of Europe lose faith in Europe.
Another thing is about diesel cars, the politicians believe that if we have less cars on diesel
we will have a better environment. They forget to tell that the only realistic alternative
at the moment is using gasoline cars and they emit more CO2. Another alternative
would be electric cars, but it wouldn´t be surprising to ascertain that the biggest share
of electricity being produced also causes the emission of CO2 at the moment of
production.
We propose a system where the EU
 abolishes the trade of CO2 rights and
 stops further regulation on diesel cars and
 focuses on what the individual countries could do.
On the other hand we support the idea to help the industry switching to a cleaner
production of electricity so that electric cars could become a realistic alternative for
the situation