11 Amendments of Karl-Heinz FLORENZ related to 2017/2009(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
- having regard to the reports of the International Resource Panel "Policy Coherence of the Sustainable Development Goals UNEP (2015)", "Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity UNEP (2016)" and "Resource Efficiency: Potential and Economic Implications UNEP (2017)",
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the communication on a European action for sustainability, which serves of the European Commission, which is mapping existing policy initiatives and instruments at the European level; highlights the need for a comprehensive gap assessment of existing EU policies and legislation in all sectors in order to allow systemic and integrated policies to be developed as the EU’'s response to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to develop a coherent action plan for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Agenda at the European level for the short term but also for the longer term beyond 2020, ensuring a coherent, comprehensive and coordinated policy strategy to achieve all of the SDGs to promote synergies, to gain co-benefits and to avoid trade-offs between the different SDGs by applying a cross-sector policy approach;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recognises that in order to meet the SDGs, multi-stakeholder engagement will be required from the EU, Member States, civil society, businesses, and third partners; therefore, calls upon the Commission to establish a multi-stakeholder platform and to report to the European Parliament and the Council how the recommendations of the platform will be followed up;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the inclusion of the SDGs incontribution of the Environmental Implementation Review in ensuring that the Member States meet some of the SDGs through implementation of the acquis; calls for a series of annual reports to Parliament on the EU’s progress in SDG implementation starting with a report of the EU's position for the United Nations High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in New York taking place in July this year; asks that Parliament become a partner in the process, particularly in the second work stream post-2020; calls for annual dialogue and reporting between Parliament and the Commission resulting in the production of a report; urges that the results should be both transparent and easily understandable and communicable for a wide range of audiences;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Recalls the importance of indicators to effectively monitor, report and review the progress towards the SDGs; stresses that the Member States should be supported by the European Commission in their coherent reporting;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes recent developments around resource and waste efficiency and the circular economyPoints to the fact that 12 out of the 17 SDGs are dependent on the sustainable use of natural resources; highlights the importance of sustainable consumption and production by increasing efficiency, decreasing pollution and reducing resource demand and waste; stresses the need to decouple economic growth, resource use and environmental impacts; welcomes therefore the concept of the circular economy and the recent developments around resource and waste efficiency; calls on the Commission to come up with a regular report on the state of the Circular economy that informs about the state and trends and allows to modify existing policies based on objective, reliable and comparable information; calls on the Commission to retain an upward trajectory with targets while supporting and guiding Member States as regards achieving waste reduction; calls on the Commission to come up with an ambitious and comprehensive strategy on plastics while also keeping with the 2020 target for environmentally sound management of chemicals;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Acknowledges that in moving towards any new economic and social model, there will inevitably be communities centred around traditional heavy industry that will over time become obsolete; calls on the Commission to stream funding from sources such as the EU ETS in order to fina resource efficient economy has a great potential for job creation and economic growth, adding an extra US$ 2 trillion to the global economy by 2050 or US$ 600 billion for G7 countries by 2050, whereas if current trends continue we would need worldwide annually by 2050 three times today's amount of resources, which is especially important for Europe as an highly import dependent continent; recalls that it is important to mancge a ‘Just Tthe transition Fund’ to help such communitieswithout creating losers and highlighting the significant role of a resilient industrial strategy;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Notes that one of the current and future push factors in third-country migration is extreme climate and environmental events; insists that the Commission must take this seriously in its external action, and reflect in all actions that mitigating the worst effects of climate change is a priority of the EU; points to the fact that improving resource efficiency is indispensable for meeting climate change targets cost effectively and that improved resource efficiency alone reduces annual global GHG emissions by 19 percent in 2050 and the GHG emissions of the G7 nations up to 25 percent by 2050;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17