EP Delegation to COP 21 in Le Bourget Conference Center in Paris. Roundtable of the briefing with Miguel ARIAS CA&Ntilde;ETE, Member of the EC in charge of Climate Action and Energy (rec 08/12). Meeting with Minister XIE Zhenhua, Head of the Chinese Delegation. Meeting with Director of Strategy UNFCCC and&nbsp;statements by Karl-Heinz FLORENZ. (EPP,DE) and by Miriam DALLI (S&amp;D, MT)

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ARIAS CAÑETE, Miguel (EPP, ES, EC)

DALLI, Miriam (S&D, MT)

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FLORENZ, Karl-Heinz (EPP, DE)

EP Delegation to COP 21: roundtable of the briefing with Miguel ARIAS CAÑETE, meetings and statements by Karl-Heinz FLORENZ (EPP, DE) and by Miriam DALLI (S&D, MT)

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SOUNDBITE (German), Karl-Heinz FLORENZ (EPP, DE), <p>"On the one hand, we have a lot of potential of mobilising money, I think it's important for these countries to understand that these money has to flow. Sometimes the West has pledged amounts that were then blocked, so we need to be more solid in this matter in Europe".</p>

SOUNDBITE (German), Karl-Heinz FLORENZ (EPP, DE), "Kyoto is gone, we need Paris. If we don't achieve Paris, we all know, not only the West, that international competition will become very difficult. And all of those who think we'd be better off without any treaty are completely wrong. Right now, everyone knows we can't fail."

SOUNDBITE (English), Miriam DALLI (S&amp;D, MT), "We need to invest in reaching those targets, because it's useless coming up here, speaking about ambitious targets, speaking about a binding agreement but then not investing money to reach those targets so that is imperative and that is something which, in my opinion, we are a little far away from actually achieving."

SOUNDBITE (English), Miriam DALLI (S&amp;D, MT), "I believe that everyone needs to contribute, even though in different degrees. We need to look at which countries polluted most in the past years, which countries are still emerging, which are the most vulnerable countries, which unfortunatelly pollute much less but are the ones who carry the heaviest burden, so as everyone has to contribute, each and every country has to contribute in different degrees."

SOUNDBITE (English), Miriam DALLI (S&amp;D, MT), <p>"With the iron disease we have, it means we will go to 2.7&ordm; C but, if we had to go to 2&ordm;C there will still be a negative impact on certain small countries which are particularly islands and low lying countries. They are pushing for 1.5&ordm;, I agree with that, I hope that we manage to go there, but I don't want to have something which is a loose aspiration, loosely written somewhere that we have this ambitious target of 1.5&ordm;, without it being backed by real measures which can make a difference."</p>