Ahern, Nuala (Verts/ALE). – Mr President, I wish to bring the attention of this Assembly to recent studies on the effects of climate change in particular, which were published in the scientific journal Nature. They document a massive loss of species, both plant and animal, as a result of climate change. The golden toad is the most memorable of these species, although probably not the most deserving.

In the light of this, I should like to ask Commissioner de Palacio to retract comments she made in December on the death of the Kyoto Treaty and request that she seek to revive that Treaty and redouble her efforts in getting Russia to join.