Activities of Mikael GUSTAFSSON related to 2011/2197(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Women and climate change (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on women and climate change PDF (228 KB) DOC (150 KB)
Amendments (6)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas consumption and lifestyle patterns have a significant impact on climate change;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas consumption patterns differ between women and men; whereas women, regardless of their socio- economic status, consume less in comparison to men and show a higher engagement and a greater willingness to act to preserve the environment by making sustainable consumption choices, eating less meat, being more energy efficient; and have less environmentally harmful mobility behaviour: they drive cars less often, walk more and use public transport more often than men;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
K a. whereas mechanisms or financing for disaster prevention, adaptation, and mitigation will remain insufficient unless they integrate women’s full participation in design, decision making, and implementation; whereas good practices from, for example, Tunisia, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras have demonstrated that women’s knowledge and participation saves lives through disaster management, boosts biodiversity and improves water management, enhances food security, prevents desertification, protects forests and supports public health;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to include gender equality and gender justice objectives in all policy areas related to environmental issues and at all levels of decision making;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to mainstream gender sensitive statistics in all environment- related policy areas in order to improve the measurement of the general situation of women and men regarding climate change;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Calls for a ‘climate friendly’ indicator (as an alternative to GNP) to monitor how growth, consumption and lifestyle patterns influence climate change;