Mr. Chair, I would like to ask one last question.
You do not seem to be so pessimistic about the negotiations at the G8. In fact, some analysts have said that there were three great achievements. First, the United States, although it has not agreed to set clear targets for 2050, committed itself to the fight against greenhouse gases in the final communiqué. Second, if I am not mistaken, the United States has also subscribed to the principle that negotiations be wrapped up at the beginning of 2009. Third, as you have indicated, even the United States supports the European and Japanese proposal to establish a framework for a carbon market. Everything is not doom and gloom, I have to say.
But there is a fundamental problem: the Americans have refused to buy into the idea of stabilizing our emissions at a level that would allow us to achieve the two degrees that are crucial for real progress in the fight against greenhouse gas emissions.
Did the G8 negotiations focus too much on secondary issues, whereas the basic problem is to stabilize our emissions and to make those two degrees a key concern? In Bali, how can we come to an agreement on this sensible European proposal that could be used as the basis for an international plan for combating climate change?