facilitating the removal of obstacles to trade or investment regarding goods and services of particular relevance for climate change mitigation, such as sustainable renewable energy and energy efficient products and services, including through the adoption of policy frameworks conducive to the deployment of best available technologies and through the promotion of standards that respond to environmental and economic needs and minimise technical obstacles to trade.

To achieve this will entail not only substantial increases in clean energy sources but also a new relationship as regards energy efficiency, involving a massive upsurge in the development of railways and motorways of the sea, the implementation, as mentioned by other speakers, of ambitious anti-pollution standards on car manufacturers, in spite of the pressure from Mrs Merkel, the massive construction of energy-saving houses, training in the use of more fuel-efficient technologies, international trade based much more on cooperation than competition, massive long-term investment and the adoption of the notion of the common good, in other ...[+++]words a number of major setbacks for liberal globalisation.

22. Calls on the Council and the Commission to ensure that the negotiations on the new generation of Free Trade Agreements (FTA) with partners in Asia and Latin America include commitments to the social and environmental aspects of trade, particularly addressing trade and investment in renewable goods and services, and sustainable development and to the effective implementation of MEAs; suggests that liberalising trade in renewable goods and technologies and increasing access to environmental services should be a key objective of the Commission in the forthcoming FTA negotiations; stresses the need to introduce WTO-compatible green gov ...[+++]ernment procurement policies systematically into bilateral agreements;

22. Calls on the Council and the Commission to ensure that the negotiations on the new generation of Free Trade Agreements (FTA) with partners in Asia and Latin America include commitments to the social and environmental aspects of trade, particularly addressing trade and investment in renewable goods and services, and sustainable development and to the effective implementation of MEAs; suggests that liberalising trade in renewable goods and technologies and increasing access to environmental services should be a key objective of the Commission in the forthcoming FTA negotiations; stresses the need to introduce WTO-compatible green gov ...[+++]ernment procurement policies systematically into bilateral agreements;

4. Calls on the Council and the Commission to ensure that the EU's bilateral agreements, particularly the new generation of Free Trade Agreements with emerging markets, address trade and investment in renewable goods and services and include provisions concerning the prevention of environmental dumping; suggests establishing Sustainable Development Forums between the parties, involving civil society, in order to encourage the exchange of good corporate practice, promote technology transfer and facilitate cooperation in research and development; supports the Commission's proposal for an Africa-Europe partnership on energy; also support ...[+++]s joint ventures with China and India, particularly regarding trade and technology transfer of wind and solar renewable energy technologies; calls on the Commission to ensure that energy, and particularly the question of renewable energy and efficiency and their connection to energy security, becomes an integral part of all external EU relations, with a particular emphasis on the European Neighbourhood policy;

11. Stresses that nuclear power causes environmental problems which should not be underestimated and asks therefore the Commission to examine how it can be guaranteed that under the emission trading system renewable energies and energy efficiency are prioritised; stresses in this regard the importance of a European pollutant-orientated climate tax which does not increase the global tax burden for citizens and which covers all greenhouse gases; points out that nuclear power produces much fewer greenhouse gases than fossile fuels;