The chair of Parliament's Committee on climate change, Italian Socialist Guido Sacconi asked the Plenary, "How can we in the EU…give those countries more help that have less capacity to deal with the effects of global warming, sometimes devastating, that have already emerged".
Klimata pārmaiņas turklāt "ietekmē attīstības sasniegumus un apdraud sekmīgu attīstību Eiropā, un vēl vairāk ietekmē jaunattīstības valstis".