eu budget and climate change report presentation
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Presentation of report in the European Parliament. The report is on the integration of climate change objectives into the EU budget.http://www.ceps.eu/book/future-sustainable-competitive-and-greener-eu-budget-integrating-climate-change-objectivesTRANSCRIPT
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Jorge Núñez Ferrer, CEPS; [email protected]
Presentation for the European Parliament lunch seminar 2 February 2010
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PreludePrelude
• EU is inefficiently using its aggregate EU is inefficiently using its aggregate public resources and those are often public resources and those are often incoherent with objectivesincoherent with objectives
• The EU budget is also used inefficiently The EU budget is also used inefficiently and is thus underminedand is thus undermined
• MEMBER STATES AND THE EU NEED MEMBER STATES AND THE EU NEED A RESTRUCTURING OF PUBLIC A RESTRUCTURING OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURESEXPENDITURES
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Aggregate EU public expenditure vs. Switzerland and Canada
SOCIAL EXPENDITURE
41,4% 20,8%
20,7%
Competitiveness and growth
15,2% 30,1% 20,2%
Source: Centre d’Analyse Strategique (2009), Scoreboard of public spending in the European Union and its Member States, Paris
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EU BUDGET• Best role is leverage and solidarity• CAP is too heavy and too big as a
share of the EU budget, not necessarily EU public expenditure
• Use budget for leverage and solidarity also for the CAP (different co-financing rates depending GNI or GDP)
• Competitiveness concerns imaginary, CAP is today completely unfairly distributed, ironically co-financing can reduce unfairness.
• CAP and budget can free themselves from present policy straightjacket.
CAP pillars 1&2
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CLIMATE AND BUDGET• CLIMATE CHANGE IS A HORIZONTAL
PROBLEM• ENSURE COHERENCE WITH CLIMATE
OBJECTIVES (and other objectives too)
• MAXIMISE LEVERAGE INSTRUMENTS, use EIB, PPPs etc.
• IMPROVE STRATEGIC PLANING AND EVALUATION
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R&D• The SET Plan needs sufficient resources• Ensure ADDITIONALITY – funds have to focus
on R&D where risks too high or maturity of technology too far into the future.
• Fund large scale demonstrations • IMPROVE participation of PRIVATE SECTOR• FOLLOW UP projects after completion• Find cause of low PRIVATE R&D in Europe
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Single market in Energy• High level of renewables needs large
integrated grids. • Energy savings and more energy security
can be achieved with a single European energy market.
• TEN-E needs to be reinforced and HVDC lines installed where needed. Most assistance for cross border and cohesion countries (with cohesion funds).
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COHERENCE & FOCUS• ALL POLICIES NEED TO BE COHERENT WITH
EMISSION OBJECTIVES!• EU PUBLIC PROCUREMENT RULES: Should
require appropriate technologies from contractors• Emission impacts need to be integrated, as well
as impacts of climate changes on infrastructure use and depreciation
• Concentrate on resource use, ecosystem management, and on fast practical side: reinforce action for waste management (methane)
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Agriculture• Emission reduction potential in the case of
the EU agricultural sector is limited
• But LAND MANAGEMENT needs further exploring, explore carbon capture potential (could be integrated into ETS)
• ADAPTATION has to be central in future policy, explore private insurance schemes with state guarantees.
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BETTER STRATEGIESBETTER STRATEGIES• Integrate climate objectives in member
states development strategies effectively• Combine EU budget, EIB, national and
private funds to develop low carbon zones. – Showcases, good for green jobs, investment and promoting EU technologies. In line with Lisbon and Gothenburg strategy
• EU and national strategic potential need improvement: Better targeting, better evaluation and a culture of results not fund absorption is needed
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EXTERNAL ACTION• Copenhagen has shown us what happens
if EU does not have a single face, a single voice and a single VISIBLE financial tool.
• One financial channel and one common position will be important to influence global policy.
• Financing: ETS is the most obvious candidate. It fulfils criteria for EU own resources better than most other options.
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